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Breaking News: President Announces Need to Reform Incident Liability Law; BP Responds

President Barack Obama called today for the prosecution of any criminal acts leading to and during the BP oil leak crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

The President stated, "If the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, the laws must change."

"If oversight was inadequate to enforce these laws, oversight must be reformed."

"If our laws were broken leading to this death and destruction, my solemn pledge is that we will bring those responsible to justice on behalf of the victims of this catastrophe and the people of the Gulf region."

The British Petroleum (editorially AKA as "Bumbling Petroleum") response was subdued and muted, stating that BP would wait for the results of investigations and withholding comment on whether any laws were indeed broken.

According to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, major industry players that are simply too large to fail have a liability shield regarding reported regulatory lapses that are revealed during assessments of hazards and their potential risks to dams, power lines, industry, and other national infrastructural assets. The NIPP chapter "Authorities, Roles, and Responsibilities" states that the Department of Energy is the sector-specific agency for "the production, refining, storage, and distribution of oil, gas, and electric power, except for nuclear power facilities."

The NIPP liability shield allows companies to freely provide all information necessary for hazard inventories, risk assessment, and effective disaster response as part of emergency management by objectives. Congress provided the liability shield on the assumption that risks from company regulatory negligence would still be manageable in an incident response as long as full information on hazards and attendant risks was forthcoming.

In the case of BP, company regulatory negligence is combined with an inability for the US Coast Guard's National Incident Commander to bring competent outside resources to bear on the problem of containing a massive oil leak 5000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico or to control the ocean currents and hurricanes that may distribute leaked raw petroleum throughout the region. Over the Memorial Day weekend, the allegation surfaced that BP internally estimated an initial range of thousands to tens of thousands of barrels a day in oil in the first week after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico with an initial death toll of 11.

At the time, BP was announcing that only five thousand barrels a day were being emitted, and the initial disaster response was based on those BP-provided estimates.

Congress has yet to provide a joint resolution or other official communique on the President's comments or BP's lack of effective response.


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President Barack Obama called today for the prosecution of any criminal acts leading to and during the BP oil leak crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

The President stated, "If the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, the laws must change."

"If oversight was inadequate to enforce these laws, oversight must be reformed."

"If our laws were broken leading to this death and destruction, my solemn pledge is that we will bring those responsible to justice on behalf of the victims of this catastrophe and the people of the Gulf region."

The British Petroleum (editorially AKA as "Bumbling Petroleum") response was subdued and muted, stating that BP would wait for the results of investigations and withholding comment on whether any laws were indeed broken.

According to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, major industry players that are simply too large to fail have a liability shield regarding reported regulatory lapses that are revealed during assessments of hazards and their potential risks to dams, power lines, industry, and other national infrastructural assets. The NIPP chapter "Authorities, Roles, and Responsibilities" states that the Department of Energy is the sector-specific agency for "the production, refining, storage, and distribution of oil, gas, and electric power, except for nuclear power facilities."

The NIPP liability shield allows companies to freely provide all information necessary for hazard inventories, risk assessment, and effective disaster response as part of emergency management by objectives. Congress provided the liability shield on the assumption that risks from company regulatory negligence would still be manageable in an incident response as long as full information on hazards and attendant risks was forthcoming.

In the case of BP, company regulatory negligence is combined with an inability for the US Coast Guard's National Incident Commander to bring competent outside resources to bear on the problem of containing a massive oil leak 5000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico or to control the ocean currents and hurricanes that may distribute leaked raw petroleum throughout the region. Over the Memorial Day weekend, the allegation surfaced that BP internally estimated an initial range of thousands to tens of thousands of barrels a day in oil in the first week after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico with an initial death toll of 11.

At the time, BP was announcing that only five thousand barrels a day were being emitted, and the initial disaster response was based on those BP-provided estimates.

Congress has yet to provide a joint resolution or other official communique on the President's comments or BP's lack of effective response.


National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP)

NIPP Executive Summary (6 pages)


Learn about NIPP for credit at FEMA's Emegency Management Institute online... It's FREE to US citizens!

IS-860.a National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), an independent study course with FEMA certification on completion


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