Comments on: Escambia Official Raises Conflict Of Interest Worries In Oil Spill Tests

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:40:17 +0000

I think our county politicians would just prefer to funnel tax money to testing labs who will then contribute some of it back to their reelection funds. They don’t get any kickbacks from the NOAA test labs. This just sounds to me like another round of the pot calling the kettle black.

By: ghendricks

ghendricks — Mon, 24 May 2010 02:52:15 +0000

Bring back Bush? Did you forget that one of the coporate “Three Stooges” in this disaster is Halliburton? Did you also forget that Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:08:53 +0000

no problem sending it to one lab as long as that one is monitored and the source of samples is kept separate from test results until afterward.

if you think BP is paying the lab to rig the results, it would be nice to have some reason to make the claim other than that’s what you would do under such circumstances.

A simple solution: take samples, split the samples, send half of some of them to local lab and other half to suspected lab. Don’t do it with all samples, just randomly select samples to test to correlation.

See if the results differ.

If they differ, do they favor BP or simply differ slightly?

If there’s a big difference, check the local lab for accuracy too.

David thinking it’s more fun to suspect the worst, though

By: anydaynow

anydaynow — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:49:04 +0000

Bring back Bush?? Are you kidding?? go read about his man Randall Luthi that put the oil companies in charge of regulating themselves.

By: huh

huh — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:36:34 +0000

Bush? hahaha the same guy that pushed so hard for drilling offshore without regulation?

Of Course, we can’t fully blame him as Obama approved it as well, they are both as bad, but we need the oil, so what can we do

By: traci

traci — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:33:09 +0000

you said that right LJ, bring back Bush.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:38:48 +0000

Thank you. Finally someone steps up to the plate, and he works for the county! Stay diligent Chips!

By: LJ

LJ — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:53:09 +0000

I pray that someday our government will learn how to handle disaster situations better. Obviously, today is not that day! It sickens me when I think of how this one has been handled!