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66 Mud shooting out the top BP’s Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report, p. 126, September 8, 2010; http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/downloads_pdfs/
Deepwater_Horizon_Accident_Investigation_Report.pdf.
67 Alarm inhibition R. Brown, “Oil Rig’s Siren Was Kept Silent, Technician Says,” New York Times, July 23, 2010 p. A1; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/us/24hearings.html?_r=1&hp.
68 “If I would have shut down those engines” R. Arnold, “Testimony: Safety System ‘Inhibited’ on Doomed Rig,” Click2Houston.com, July 23, 2010; http://www.click2houston.com/news/24373880/detail.html.
69 Mike Williams’s description of events “Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster,” CBSNews.com, May 16,2010; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490197.shtml. See also R. Brown, “Oil Rig’s Siren Was Kept Silent, Technician Says,” New York Times, July 23, 2010, p. A1; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/us/24hearings.html?_r=1&hp. See also “Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Hearings Testimony Videos for July 23, 2010,” August 4, 2010; http://www.deepwaterinvestigation.com/go/doc/3043/834139/.
70 Interchange between Pleasant and Kuchta D. Hammer, “Deepwater Horizon’s Ill-Fated Oil Well Could Have Been Handled More Carefully, Hearings Reveal,” NOLA.com, May 29, 2010; http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/hammer-hearings-cg.html.
71 Disconnect failed “USCG/MMS Marine Board of Investigation into the Marine Casualty, Explosion, Fire, Pollution, and Sinking of Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon, with Loss of Life in the Gulf of Mexico,” April 21–22, 2010, testimony of Jimmy Harrell, transcript p. 58, May 27, 2010; http://www.deepwaterinvestigation.com/go/doc/3043/670139.
72 Summary of the things that went wrong “Oil Spill: BP Engineers Partly Responsible,” ComodityOnline.com, September 10, 2010; http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Oil-Spill-BP-engineers-partly-responsible-31641-3-1.html.
APRIL
1 “leading the government response” C. Woodward, “A Containable Accident, Then Suddenly a Crisis,” Associated Press, April 30, 2010.
2 April 23 quotes from Obama, the Coast Guard (except Landry), BP, and Transocean, and the misreported amount of oil “Major Oil Spill as Rig Sinks off US Coast,” Agence France-Presse, April 23, 2010; http://www.physorg.com/news191218312.html.
3 Michael Brown quotes D. Sweet, “Michael Brown: Obama Let Oil Spill Get Worse on Purpose,” Raw Story, May 4, 2010; http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/05/michael-brown-obama-wanted-oil-spill.
4 Obama drilling decision A. Koppelman, “Is There Anyone Who Likes Obama’s Drilling Decision?” Salon.com, March 31, 2010; http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/03/31/drilling_reacts. See also J. M. Broder, “Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time,” New York Times, March 30, 2010; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/sdence/earth/31energy.html.
5 Landry quotes about no apparent leak, plus Robert Gibb and sometimes accidents happen C. Woodward, “A Containable Accident, Then Suddenly a Crisis,” Associated Press, April 30, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10513415.
6 Manageable F. Grimm, “Vast Oil Spill May Alter Debate on Gulf Drilling,” Miami Herald, April 27, 2010; http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/26/1599498/vast-oil-spill-may-alter-debate.html.
7 Two to four weeks S. Mufson, “Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico Creates Dilemmas in Nature and Politics,” Washington Post, April 27, 2010; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/04/26/
AR2010042604308.html.
8 Relief well, 1,800 square miles, dome, “we have to be careful,” “far as the eye could see,” off-flavors, and Jindal asked for booms C. Burdeau, “Oil Leak from Sunken Rig off La. Could Foul Coast,” Associated Press, April 26, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10480828.