National Oil Spill Commission Report claims the Deepwater Horizon oil spill could have been prevented.

The National Oil Spill Commission on Tuesday released its final report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and found that the spill could have been prevented. The 398-page report concludes that "the immediate causes of the Macondo well blowout can be traced to a series of identifiable mistakes made by BP, Halliburton, and Transocean that reveal such systematic failures in risk management that they place in doubt the safety culture of the entire industry."

It called for the oil industry to develop and enforce its own world-class safety standards, to adopt a more active approach to reducing risks, such as safety measures used in the North Sea, and to pay for tougher federal regulation through permit and licensing fees.

"Because regulatory oversight alone will not be sufficient to ensure adequate safety, the oil and gas industry will need to take its own, unilateral steps to increase dramatically safety through the industry, including self-policing mechanisms that supplement governmental enforcement," the report states.

Link:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pdf_final/DEEPWATER_ReporttothePresident_FINAL.pdf