Agency postpones awards ceremony celebrating offshore oil drilling safety.

Source: Think Progress

Agency postpones awards ceremony celebrating offshore oil drilling safety.

Since the offshore oil rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico, federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service (MMS) have been coming under increasing scrutiny for whether they were negligent in overseeing the rigs owned by BP and others. At a press conference this morning, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) compared it to the SEC’s failure to enforce regulations leading up to the financial crisis. Ironically, MMS was all set to hold its annual “2010 Annual Industry SAFE Awards Luncheon” on May 3. Perhaps recognizing that now is not the time to applaud the oil industry for safety on the job, MMS postponed the event. From the agency’s website:
http://www.mms.gov/awards/

The LA Times notes that last year, BP “was among the luncheon’s winners, cited for ‘outstanding dedication and leadership in promoting improved medical care and evacuation capabilities for offshore facilities.’” During the Bush administration, MMS was embroiled in scandal over its employees being in bed (sometimes literally) with the oil industry it was supposed to be regulating.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/gulf-oil-spill-safety-celebration-postponed.html

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/01/drilling-awards/

...at least slightly less funny than if they had gone ahead with holding the event.

They didn't even have the decency to cancel the event, postphone, and cancell are very different...Their in your face attitude really gets my blood boiling...Same is true of Massey giving each of the miner's family $3 million a piece..Blood money...And can't forget Halliburton's responsibility for the oil spill, These criminals should spend the rest of their greedy lives in prision..

dressed in orange and chains, cleaning their oil off of the turtles and lizards and birds and marsh....

Or they are too busy spinning and covering their asses to actually proceed.

What do you think are the odds?

They are still waiting for that small setback at Midway to blow over.