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Are We Drawing the Wrong Lessons from the Gulf Oil Disaster?

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  • Richard Martin
  • May 3, 2010
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MONTREAL (3 MAY 2010) – We are already hearing calls from environmentalists for a moratorium on oil drilling and exploration in coastal zones, with a definite “I told you so” attitude. Unfortunately, that would be drawing precisely the wrong lesson from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. It turns out that there are contingent risk reduction measures that BP could have put in place before the disaster. They wouldn’t necessarily have prevented the main well explosion and damage, but they would have potentially reduced the harm that is being caused.

I’m no expert on oil drilling, but it seems to me that BP, and government regulations, are at fault to some significant level. BP is apparently asking the Canadian government for a dispensation from building production wells in Canadian waters of the Beaufort Sea without drilling secondary safety wells in case of a similar accident to what has happened in the Gulf of Mexico. Here is the real lesson: risk management costs money and time and effort, but once there is a proven technology for reducing or better managing risks, then it is incumbent on decision makers to incorporate that measure into their plans, or at least consider it.

And further, assuming the Canadian government approves more exploration in the Arctic, what contingency plans, both governmental and corporate, will be in place to deal with potential risks, up to and including a major leak or spill?

Richard Martin is founder and president of Alcera Consulting Inc. He brings his military and business leadership experience to bear for executives and organizations seeking to exploit change, maximize opportunity, and minimize risk.

© 2010 Richard Martin


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Richard Martin is the President of Alcera Consulting Inc., a strategic advisory firm collaborating with top-level leaders to provide strategic insight, navigate uncertainty, and drive transformative change, ensuring market dominance and excellence in public governance. He is the author of Brilliant Manoeuvres: How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles and the creator of the blog ExploitingChange.com. Richard is also the developer of Strategic Epistemology, a groundbreaking theory that focuses on winning the battle for minds in a world of conflict by dismantling opposing worldviews and ideologies through strategic narrative and archetypal awareness.

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