The Mineral Management Service, is part of the Interior Department, of the US government, which permits and regulates drilling projects for the oil and gas industries. For many years they have turned a blind eye to the oil and gas giants, when it comes to safety, clean up scenarios and environmental concerns, in exchange for favors. Often times the inspection reports were allowed to be written by the oil companies themselves in pencil only later to be traced in pen by the MMS staff. BP's off shore deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico was treated with the same casual nonchalance. Taken on the word of the BP employees that there was no problem with tapping the well, 5000 feet below on the ocean floor, should an accident occur, the MMS granted the permits to drill.
And as they say, the rest is history..
This piece is about back scratching in a harmonies dance of self-serving greed.
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