{"id":1019,"date":"2010-07-16T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/16\/good-gulf-news-but"},"modified":"2010-07-16T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T02:31:00","slug":"good-gulf-news-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Good Gulf news, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The good news today from the Gulf of Mexico notwithstanding, BP still has plenty for which to answer regarding the oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Why did crews on the Deepwater Horizon reportedly ignore warning signs before the platform blew up on April 20?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Did the company take shortcuts regarding the casings used to seal the shaft it had sunk deep into the sea bottom?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Why didn&#8217;t the company have a ready-made action plan drawn up in the event of such a catastrophe?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Why did BP keep insisting that it would pay &#8220;all legitimate claims,&#8221; using language it should have known would enrage Gulf coast residents whose lives have been shattered by the oil spill?<\/p>\n<p>Those are just for starters.<\/p>\n<p>But today came word that the company had stopped the oil flow into the Gulf. The coast isn&#8217;t out of the woods yet. BP has more testing to do on the containment cap. Then we&#8217;ll wait for the relief wells to be finished, and then the company will pour cement into the blown-out well to plug it for keeps.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the company had better get its &#8220;answer men&#8221; up to speed. There will be plenty of questions to answer in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news today from the Gulf of Mexico notwithstanding, BP still has plenty for which to answer regarding the oil spill. &#8212; Why did crews on the Deepwater Horizon reportedly ignore warning signs before the platform blew up on April 20? &#8212; Did the company take shortcuts regarding the casings used to seal the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Gulf news, but &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}