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I'm pretty sure they do, but the explosive (literally) nature of the situation negated all of them. A few people died in the original incident, iirc. The one s
by rriepe 16y ago
I'm pretty sure they do, but the explosive (literally) nature of the situation negated all of them. A few people died in the original incident, iirc.
The one safety measure of note is the relief well. They're not required to drill them along with the primary well. I read somewhere that it's not this way in Canada, and that BP had been lobbying them to let them drill without a relief well. Good luck with that now, BP. Hopefully we'll see a law that requires relief wells here in the US.
Of course, they're scrambling to drill a relief well now, which they predict will be done in early August.
- chancho 16y agoa few = 11
- tbrownaw 16y ago> I read somewhere that it's not this way in Canada, and that BP had been lobbying them to let them drill without a relief well. That's from Reddit, and it looks like it wasn't exactly correct: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c8t30/in_canada_it_is_mandatory_that_a_relief_well_is/c0qwucn http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/c8t30/in_canada_it...