BP DEEPWATER-MACONDO DISASTER IN THE GULF - TWO YEARS AFTER:
Featuring:
AARON MEHTA of the Center for Public Integrity [ publicintegrity.org ], with a contemporaneous report detailing US Coast Guard logs detailing a greater unfolding crisis than acknowledged by BP and Administration sources; and
President BARACK OBAMA and Interior Secretary KEN SALAZAR, bragging of a new offshore-drilling regime -- a mere three weeks before BP's disastrous Deepwater-Macondo blowout; and
GREG PALAST [ gregpalast.com ], discussing BP's wretched history in a 2008 Azerjaibani rig blowout similar to the 2010 Deepwater disaster, and ongoing unsafe policies, published as "BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout,"in conjunction with EcoWatch [ ecowatch.org ]; and
A confidential 2008 US STATE DEPARTMENT CABLE, courtesy of WikiLeaks [ http://wlcentral.org/ ], detailing prior USG knowledge of BP failures in Azerbaijan, foreshadowing the Deepwater diasaster; and
Brazzaville - "Caspian Sea" -- An acoustic lament reflecting workers' thoughts at the scene of the Caspian crime.
Anchor: Robert Knight Producer: Thiago Barrozo Engineer: Michael G. Haskins Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
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