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BP Keeping Cap on Oil Leak Video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQRtai0mbFQ
Critics blast BP for not releasing video showing the extent of the
Gulf Coast oil spill. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.
(also archived here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/05/11/am.lavandera.bp.oil.video.cnn?hpt=Sbin
)

Please see also Stopping the Gulf Coast Oil Spill video, after the one above.
Best animation I’ve seen of the blowout preventer:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/05/11/am.lavandera.bp.oil.video.cnn?hpt=Sbin

Beau Browpert says he “can’t understand why the blades in the blowout
preventer failed to cut the pipe... there are at least six redundant
separate emergency systems that can close any one of those valves on
that blowout preventer... they all failed”

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Training Exercises Revealed Gaps in Preparedness for Major Oil Spill
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bp-oil-spill-training-exercises-revealed-gaps-preparedness/story?id=10616979&page=1
Lack of Experience, Poor Communications and Conflicting Roles Cited
By JOHN SOLOMON, AARON MEHTA, MATTHEW MOSK and AVNI PATEL
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY AND ABC NEWS
May 11, 2010

Three weeks before the massive Gulf oil rig explosion, U.S Coast Guard
officials led an elaborate exercise in which they practiced their
response to a major oil spill – one of four dry runs over the past
decade that foreshadowed many of the weaknesses in coordination,
communication, expertise and technology that are now hampering the
federal response to the oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to interviews and after-action reports obtained in a joint
investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity, the
drills exposed flaws in the nation's readiness for what they termed an
oil spill of national significance.
As early as 2002, the practice runs showed that oil companies not only
lacked updated equipment to mount an effective response to a spill,
but would need to be forced by the government to invest in better
technology.
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Bloomberg
Oil-Spill Agency Fetches $13 Billion Amid ‘Cozy’ Ties (Update3)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-11/oil-spill-agency-fetches-13-billion-amid-cozy-ties-update3-.html
May 11, 2010, 12:08 PM EDT, By Jim Efstathiou Jr.
May 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. agency overseeing offshore drilling
safety is also the government’s second-largest money maker, a dual
role being probed in hearings on last month’s deadly oil-rig explosion
in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Minerals Management Service generates about $13 billion a year for
the U.S. Treasury by partnering with companies such as BP Plc and
Exxon Mobil Corp. to develop oil and natural gas, trailing only the
Internal Revenue Service in revenue.

At the same time, the agency and its 1,700 employees enforce safety
rules, suggesting “inherent internal conflicts of interest,” Senator
Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said in an e-mail. Menendez
and his colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee will hold the first congressional hearing on the incident
today.

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