Oil Drilling Reform

Click here to listen or read about new oil drilling standards that are being implicated by the federal oil spill commission to ensure safer drilling in light of the BP disaster in the Gulf last year. The article raised interesting points in my mind on environmental safety when it comes to oil drilling. Although i acknowledge that oil is a valuable resource to the world and it may be hard to reduce the risk to zero i believe we must try to reduce the risk to zero before we continue to drill for oil in new places. For example the article discusses possible regulations that could be put into effect once oil companies start drilling in the Arctic, but my personal opinion is we must reduce all risk of harm to wild life to zero before we can make a moral and conscience decision to carry out with these actions. Finally although this article does not directly discuss BP and there actions it further fueled my hatred for them post the gulf disaster and led me to think about should we put restriction on companies who can drill and sell oil in our country who have made such harmful and disaster's mistakes like BP did?