SWAT Teams Dispatched To 29 Oil Drilling Platforms Early On
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Shepard Ambellas
June 9, 2010
Obama’s Interior Department dispatched SWAT teams to 29 platforms in the Gulf early on. Why would SWAT be dispatched to oil rigs if the Deepwater Horizon was just an accident? This raises many questions. Such as fires have been known to burn for weeks on platforms without any signs of collapse. Also the involvement of the BLM on the rig two hours before the explosion raises some questions. Aparently a four man inspection team showed up to the Deepwater Horizon hours before the explosion.
Here is an exerpt from an article by the Washington Examiner
Three weeks ago in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Obama’s Interior Department dispatched “SWAT” teams to conduct emergency inspections of all 29 deepwater oil drilling platforms in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf waters of the Gulf of Mexico that use Subsea Blowout Preventers.
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The announcement of the SWAT teams received much media attention because it came as the White House was being criticized in some quarters for a tardy response to the explosion that killed 11 crew members on the platform and the ensuing massive oil spill that followed the structure’s sinking in 5,000 feet of water.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Remember-Obamas-emergency-Gulf-Oil-SWAT-team-inspections-94727604.html#ixzz0qMRH4SN6
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I don’t think this means actual police ‘special weapons and tactics’ teams. I think they mean ‘SWAT’ in a metaphorical sense of something that acts rapidly with the intention of getting a situation under control quickly. If you look at the original document that the Examiner article links to, it just talks about sending mining service inspectors out to the other rigs to make sure they were up to code and weren’t also liable to fall apart like the BP rig.
Joschka says:
June 9, 2010 at 6:34 am
I don’t think this means actual police ’special weapons and tactics’ teams. I think they mean ‘SWAT’ in a metaphorical sense of something that acts rapidly with the intention of getting a situation under control quickly. If you look at the original document that the Examiner article links to, it just talks about sending mining service inspectors out to the other rigs to make sure they were up to code and weren’t also liable to fall apart like the BP rig.
I have lake front property for you Joschka in the middle of the desert to buy as well.