Led by an Acadiana lawmaker, it took a Senate committee only a few minutes late Tuesday afternoon to approve a set of subpoenas for Transocean officials.
In a rare legislative move, the Senate Natural Resources Committee voted unanimously to issue subpoenas for officials from Transocean Ltd., the company that owns the Deepwater Horizon Rig that was leased to BP.
According to Sen. Nick Gautreaux, D-Abbeville, Transocean officials told the committee that they would not be sending a representative to a planned briefing Thursday morning because there are a series of conflicting hearings being conducted the same day in Washington, D.C.
With both BP and Halliburton, which cemented the well prior to the April 20 explosion, on the agenda, Gautreaux says Transocean has no excuse not to be at the witness table. “I might add that BP has people over there [for the Washington hearing], and they’re coming [to Baton Rouge],” Gautreaux says. “Also, Halliburton has people over there, and they’re coming. It just seems like Transocean is the only one who doesn’t want to come.”
The state constitution gives the committee the authority to issue subpoenas, but its approving vote was only the first step in the process. After the committee endorsed the motion, Senate President Joel Chaisson, D-Destrehan, whose district includes the Thibodaux region, was required to sign off on the order. A sergeant-at-arms, one of the legislative officers responsible for providing security at the State Capitol, was then charged with delivering the subpoenas.
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CO-JOINED AT THE HIP POCKET, LEGISLATORS !
JESUS, soneone shouild speak to the survivors of the blowout, and you will find that the fng. culprit here " MMS "is also co-joined to the BP Oil Operator. """ MMS was fully aware of BP's unsafe operation and the extreme chance BP was taking by going ahead with an uncured cement job and inoperable well equipment down at the ocean bed,,,,,,,,,, This is not my opinion, this is a survivor's account of the blowout/fire, this eye-witness account related to me by a survivor, A close relative, (WHOSE WELL-BEING, I PRAYED FOR UNTIL NOTIFIED OF HIS SAFETY) places the blame on 1. MMs for not enforcing regulations and for allowing BP to continue unsafe drilling operations, and 2. BP for taking advantage of the fact that the top officials at MMS would roll over for "CHUMP CHANGE, and allow their unsafe operation to continue making hole and result in some fine hard-working men to go to their death, before their time. How these greedy leeches will go on and live with the fact that for chump change they allowed/partnered with BP to send some HARD WORKING MEN, with families to their grave, TOO EARLY !