I appreciate your litany of what you're attempting to do, but one seems more incredible than the other.
So we have multiple redundancies. It's not just a singular thing that's going to work to create the safety. Multiple redundancies.
Why would this rig not require the oversight and regulation mandated under our country's most important environmental legislation?
What I see is a company not prepared to address a worst case scenario, but a company that is flailing around trying whatever they think of n...
Here we have a rig that the industry has told us so many times is so technologically advanced it supposedly could not spill.
This incident appears to have been entirely preventable if internationally accepted practices were followed.
There's this transference of liability or finger-pointing.
At one time, it was a highly respected thought leader. Particularly on agriculture, it led the Green Revolution.
Well, we have a difference of opinion in terms of reform and then having the resources.
I don't know what the purpose is if you don't believe the program is worthy of spending any money based upon the way it operates.
You know, Senator Johanns and I, working with the Chairman, have developed legislation to reform 811 and to leverage other affordable housin...