The power of the transnational

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Officials receive bonds from the petroleum according to the number from issued licenses
The power of the transnational
By: Carlos Damian August 5, 2010
The Congress would impose to BP in compensatory limit but high that the outstanding of 75 million of dollars
México. – The minerals managing service (MMS), the agency of the commissioned American government with regulating the oil perforation operations in the sea, ignored scientific reports about potential environmental risks upon extending new permits for those activities. The terrible ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is found wrapped the British Petroleum (BP), began 20 of April with the explosion of the platform Deepwater Horizon, is mentioned that officials of the agency frequently manipulated documents and they had no respect for legal procedures intended for to protect the marine environment.

It is emphasized that officials of the MMS tend to receive bonds in cash from the petroleum on the base of the permits number from issued perforation, therefore is noted that all these practices weaken "drastically" the scientific supervision capacity as is established in the Law of Marine Mammals Protection and the National law of Policy of the environment. During the current government of Barack Obama, as well as in the previous of George W. Bush were ignored the alerts issued by scientific of the National Oceanic Administration and of the environment (NOAA), and of the Marine Mammals Commission in the middle of a "war between the biologists and the engineers”.

There is a growing popular discomfort against the oil operations of the transnational as compared to the coasts, while the president Obama has been seen obligated to stop the plans to open new zones to the sea exploration inside; waiting that is solved those which is considered already as one of the greats leakage in the history of the country.

The power of the oil Companies
Poured of the oil in the waters of the Atlantic, not alone is an environmental disaster, but also political, and it has been converted into a headaches for the current federal administration, to who is accused to him by the affected direct - Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida - of have not acted in energetic and efficient form before the crisis.

The state chief, it has announced a series of actions to delimit responsibilities by the accident, and yesterday the White House announced that will demand to the transnational that deposit in an account handled by a mediator the funds that pay the damages that it has caused the leak. Though the intentions of Obama toward the petroleum: BP. They have not traveled, of what is rhetorical to the facts, his scolding have caused tension in the relationships between Washington and London: the British prime minister, David Cameron, expressed makes some days the support of his government to the president of the petroleum, Carl-Henric Svanberg, to who the American leader has criticized embittered it for his infamy in the managing of the crisis.

The economic situation - political puts of relief the huge power factic that possesses the large industrial conglomerates, financial and commercial in the contemporary world. In the present situation, the government of The States has been limited to request, with uncertain perspectives, that the British company guarantee the payment of the damages caused by the explosion of the platform Deepwate Horizon and the consequent apportion of crude in the sea, but nobody up until now, it has put on table the need of going beyond relative actions and of implanting preventive measure of control of the activities of the transnational consortiums.

It is meaningful that these actions not the may have made the governments of the country headquarters of such consortiums and less can make it the developing nations, whose political institutions have a reduced capacity of watching by the environmental integrity and by the sovereignty. As antecedent in the case of Mexico, we’re possible to recall that the risks or the environmental damages introduced by mining companies have been ignored by the government, and it is clear that this lacks the capacity to make front to the vast power of a transnational as BP in a circumstance akin to that of accident of the platform Deepwater Horizon.

The consideration is not idle, since two years ago the current administration was pawned in modifying the legal framework of oil industry to permit that similar consortiums BP, they could to incursion in deep waters of the territorial sea. The arguments in connection with the official campaign were that those transnational were possessing equal oil technology to the injured platform as compared to the Louisiana coasts. That this episode result in a lesson for the governmental and private sectors that propose the oil development in spite of these devastating facts sea inside, on insisting and be grappled to the oil wells idea because the technology "is very advanced and sure" , in spite of the facts. (La Jornada, opinion, p. 4, June 14, 2010).