Spill Panel Chief: Industry Bears Main Responsibility for Safety

摘要

One of the two chairmen of the president's oil spill commission has offered an early glimpse into the panel's likely recommendations, suggesting that the US should move toward a new era of self-policing by the offshore oil industry and adopt a site-specific regulatory regime like the UK's. "The interest group that could most threaten the future viability of offshore drilling is the oil and gas industry itself," William Reilly, co-chair of the panel, told an industry gathering on Wednesday.