Whos on the hook for what happened?
Several congressional hearings are scheduled for next week, at which executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean have been asked to testify. Several lawmakers have also called for investigations into MMS and its responsibility in the Deepwater Horizon incident. Investigators are also raising questions about Cameron International, the company that made the failed blowout preventer. While accepting that it has to pay for the cleanup, BP has been trying to distance itself from the spill and push at least some responsibility on Transocean. “It wasn’t our accident,” BP CEO Tony Hayward said on NBC’s “Today” show last week.
