It looks like our crystal meth snorting, porn viewing distracted and overworked Minerals Management Service employees let this slippery devil slip past them.
According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER):
The British Petroleum Gulf Response Plan looked out everyone's best interests, including walruses, sea lions, sea otters, and seals.
Don't walruses live near the Arctic Circle? I seem to remember that someone else wrote "I am the Walrus" when he was while workin' hard, too.
PEER has their own thoughts on BP's plan:
"This response plan is not worth the paper it is written on," said PEER Board Member Rick Steiner, a noted marine professor and conservationist who tracked the Exxon Valdez spill, noting that the plan is almost 600 pages largely consisting of lists, phone numbers and blank forms. "Incredibly, this voluminous document never once discusses how to stop a deep water blowout even though BP has significant deep water operations in the Gulf."