The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, BP and Energy Policy: Where Do We Go from Here?
beneath the Gulf, but now extracted in the name of progress and self-sufficiency. Perhaps not this one; the slick from the Deepwater Horizon may wash ashore elsewhere, destroying their plants and animals, and leaving the local ecosystem here in Florida relatively untouched. But there is a sense of resolution among costal residents that someday the bell will toll for us as well. As politicos and oil execs debate the best way to approach the current disaster—which primarily means how best to exculpate themselves from any blame—the conversation has again turned towards how best to manage our oil resources. President Obama has pledged to put an end to the “cozy relationship” between the oil companies and government regulators,1 and people all over the world have proposed myriad solutions to the crisis itself. Given the shocking ineptitude of the so-called “Minerals Management Service,” the body charged with regulating the environmental impact of the nation’s oil industry (and which instead
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