By GottaLaff
Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News Service is on the Thom Hartmann Show:
Ratner: BP will have to pay for everything. They'll get some Coast Guard help. The spill is "of national significance" (per Napolitano). It's an exploratory well, not a production well. And 11 people died.
Hartmann: I heard that the company that was pumping cement down into well to separate oil from gas, was Halliburton.
Ratner: Halliburton has a lot of very small companies that don't do business under the Halliburton name. So probably, it's a subsidiary of a subsidiary. Not easy to trace. Journalists are lazy, said a friend, and that's why it did not come up [paraphrased].
Hartmann: What was their role, why was it not being covered? If you Google it will come right up.
So much for that new "oil exploration" Obama is supporting... speaking of which (via an e-mail alert):
WASHINGTON (AP) Presidential assistant: Gulf oil spill could impact Obama's new offshore oil drilling plan.
Gee, ya think?
President Obama is on MSNBC discussing the Gulf oil leak:
SWAT teams are being sent to inspect all platforms and rigs. BP, administration are trying to determine cause. Napolitano to thoroughly investigate.
Via Steven D**:
And at the center of this ecological and economic disaster created when the oil rig owned by British Petroleum a/k/a BP Petroleum drilling in 5000 feet of water exploded, and which has taken the lives of at least 11 oil rig workers (that we know about) is a company with whom we are all too familiar: Halliburton or as most of us like to refer to it, former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney's retirement fund.
NEW ORLEANS - The widow of a crew member killed in last week's oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has filed a lawsuit accusing the companies that operated the rig with negligence, court documents showed Tuesday.The suit was filed by Natalie Roshto against Transocean Ltd, British Petroleum and Halliburton after the blast that killed her husband Shane, a seaman on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig.
Steven D** has much more, including a rundown of Halliburton's track record.
** Corrected credit.
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