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10/08/2010

Conflicts, Low-Balling Blamed for Slow Reaction To Gulf Spill

"Conflicts between federal and local officials as well as the Obama administration's low estimates of the BP oil spill slowed the response to the disaster, according to one of four draft staff reports issued Wednesday by a White House commission.

'While it is not clear that this misplaced optimism (about the flow of oil) affected any individual response effort, it may have affected the scale and speed with which national resources were brought to bear,' said one of the staff reports by the the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission. 'Most responders,' the report said, thought the initial approach was 'too slow and unfocused.'"

Bruce Alpert and Mark Schleifstein report for the New Orleans Times-Picayune October 7, 2010.

Posted at 10:17 AM in Flow Rate, Media/Transparency, White House |

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