KW4MW
06-20-2010, 04:08 PM
Oil Spill Panel:
Co-Chairman:
Bob Graham - Former FL Senator and Governor - has often pushed for a drilling ban off the Florida Coasts
Co-Chairman:
William Reilly - former EPA administrator under Pres. G.H.W.Bush and during the Valdez Exxon spill
Frances Beinecke - President of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Donald Boesch - president of the University of Md Center for Environmental Science
Terry Garcia - National Geographic Society exec and former chief lawyer at NOAA under Clinton
Cherry Murray - dean of Harvard's engineering school and former president of the American Physical Society (background in optics and physics)
Frances Ulmer - chancellor of the University of Alaska, Anchorage and former Lt. Gov of Alaska
In short, these folks are policy wonks with little or no understanding of the disaster. In comparison - the 13 member panel that looked into the Challenger accident had seven engineering and aviation experts and three other scientists.
Iraj Ersahaghi who heads the petroleum engineering program at USC asked "What do they know about petroleum?"
An expert who is not on the oil spill panel, Granger Morgan, head of the engineering and public policy department at Carnegie Mellon stated that the panel should have included more technical expertise and "folks who aren't already staked out on oil issues".
Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute described the investigations "an exercise in political theater where the findings are preordained by the people put on the commission".
Ref: Oil Spill Panel big on Policy, not engineering // Seth Borenstein (http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1310ap_us_gulf_oil_spill_commission.html)
Co-Chairman:
Bob Graham - Former FL Senator and Governor - has often pushed for a drilling ban off the Florida Coasts
Co-Chairman:
William Reilly - former EPA administrator under Pres. G.H.W.Bush and during the Valdez Exxon spill
Frances Beinecke - President of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Donald Boesch - president of the University of Md Center for Environmental Science
Terry Garcia - National Geographic Society exec and former chief lawyer at NOAA under Clinton
Cherry Murray - dean of Harvard's engineering school and former president of the American Physical Society (background in optics and physics)
Frances Ulmer - chancellor of the University of Alaska, Anchorage and former Lt. Gov of Alaska
In short, these folks are policy wonks with little or no understanding of the disaster. In comparison - the 13 member panel that looked into the Challenger accident had seven engineering and aviation experts and three other scientists.
Iraj Ersahaghi who heads the petroleum engineering program at USC asked "What do they know about petroleum?"
An expert who is not on the oil spill panel, Granger Morgan, head of the engineering and public policy department at Carnegie Mellon stated that the panel should have included more technical expertise and "folks who aren't already staked out on oil issues".
Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute described the investigations "an exercise in political theater where the findings are preordained by the people put on the commission".
Ref: Oil Spill Panel big on Policy, not engineering // Seth Borenstein (http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1310ap_us_gulf_oil_spill_commission.html)
