US knew of Gulf oil spill risk

Miami Herald is in the right place to know.

Jim

Of course they knew. The government knew about the risks to the levees around New Orleans long before hurricane Katrina.

Far too many leadership decisions are based on profits and probabilities. At this point, we either accept or change this line of reasoning from our leadership. What most people forget is that we have choice. The wildlife of the Gulf and world in which we depend on and coexist with us does not.

Eric

A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater.

Source: miamiherald.com