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Salazar Announces Strategy To Dissolve Culture Of Corruption In Wake Of Spill
By Miles Wolf Tamboli-Talk Radio News Service
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar outlined the reorganization of the Minerals Management Service, the federal regulatory authority that has been facing mounting criticism over its management of the Deepwater Horizon rig, during an appearance before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.
"The Minerals Management Service is no more," Salazar said.
The agency has been split, explained Salazar, into three separate branches and renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or the Bureau of Ocean Energy, for short.
"We believe that its important to separate the leasing functions from the enforcement functions, and also to separate the revenue functions from the enforcement functions as well," added Salazar.
Michael Bromwich, the new director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy, appeared alongside Salazar Wednesday. Bromwich, a former Justice Department inspector general, told the Senators that the MMS lacked "investigative capability," and that he wishes to build an infrastructure for internal and external accountability, in part to address what many have called MMS', "culture of corruption."
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar outlined the reorganization of the Minerals Management Service, the federal regulatory authority that has been facing mounting criticism over its management of the Deepwater Horizon rig, during an appearance before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.
"The Minerals Management Service is no more," Salazar said.
The agency has been split, explained Salazar, into three separate branches and renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or the Bureau of Ocean Energy, for short.
"We believe that its important to separate the leasing functions from the enforcement functions, and also to separate the revenue functions from the enforcement functions as well," added Salazar.
Michael Bromwich, the new director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy, appeared alongside Salazar Wednesday. Bromwich, a former Justice Department inspector general, told the Senators that the MMS lacked "investigative capability," and that he wishes to build an infrastructure for internal and external accountability, in part to address what many have called MMS', "culture of corruption."
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New Moratorium Backed By Bureau Of Ocean Energy Management
by Miles Wolf Tamboli - Talk Radio News Service
One day after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar revealed a revised moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, formerly known as the Minerals Management Service, Michael Bromwich met with President Obama’s special BP-Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission in New Orleans to express his approval of Washington’s policies.
Bromwich contended that the decision to reinstate the ban was based on “extensive” information, and is focused on enhancing drilling safety and blowout containment capability, and developing better disaster response strategies.
Salazar’s appointed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director did concede that the moratorium was, “roughly congruent with the original moratorium,” but argued that this most recent ban is concerned with specific rig technologies, and not just the depth of the well.“So long as the spill is out there, has not been contained, and that the oil spill response capabilities are all being consumed by the current spill, the Secretary concluded that it is simply too risky to allow deep water drilling to continue,” Bromwich said.