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On the recordJanuary 25, 2011
The risk of not making the new agency as autonomous as the Commission recommends is that the new agency, especially after there is less political attention paid over time to the risks of well blowouts, will, as in the past, place greater weight on revenue collection to the detriment of ensuring safe drilling operations.
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Jeff Landry
Louisiana

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Warns about risks of insufficient autonomy for new agency affecting drilling safety.

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