05/28/2024
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"We faced an engineering issue. A blowout preventer failed, and it failed catastrophically. It caused enormous environmental and economic devastation."
"After the Commission concluded its work and issued this report, we still don't know why that blowout preventer failed."
"No one would argue for the need for additional water facilities, but I think you would have to agree that 200 billion gallons of water would have made all of the difference in the world in the Central..."
"I think the Central Valley would define failure as 40 percent unemployment in Mendota and an agricultural industry that has literally been brought to its knees."