墨西哥湾漏油调查委员会批评美国政府“反应迟钝”-凯发k8官网

墨西哥湾漏油调查委员会批评美国政府“反应迟钝”
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a commission investigating the response to the bp oil spill in the 1 of mexico has strongly criticised the white house in a number of areas.

一个负责调查英国石油公司墨西哥湾原油泄漏案的委员会在许多方面强烈批评美国政府。

the report says the government's response 'seemed to lag' in the early stages of the disaster
the report says the government's response 'seemed to lag' in the early stages of the disaster

the obama administration blocked government scientists' efforts to inform the public of worst case 2, a draft(草稿) report said.

officials were said to have been too optimistic about handling the disaster, one of the worst in us history.

the white house disputes this, saying officials "were clear with the public".

but the bbc's steve kingstone, in washington, says the 4(控告,指责) will embarrass the white house, coming as they do from a commission appointed by president barack obama.

'controlling information'

the report by the national oil spill commission says the white house was directly involved in controlling information from the spill that began after an explosion on the deepwater horizon drilling rig on 20 april.

the report says that during the crucial first 10 days of the oil spill the government's response "seemed to lag" - and that coastguard officials were "overly-optimistic" in believing bp could handle the incident.

government scientists are accused of first underestimating the amount of oil pouring into the gulf and then 5 the quantity which had evaporated(蒸发,消失) or otherwise been removed from the sea.

the report says the president's 6 on energy policy, carol browner, stated wrongly on american television that three-quarters of the oil had "gone", and that the white house blocked a request by officials to make public a worst case 3 for the scale of the leak.

worst-case scenario

the panel, which cited interviews with government officials, said in late april or early may, the white house budget office denied a request from the national oceanic and 7 administration (noaa) to make public its worst-case estimate of how much oil could leak from the macondo well.

but the white house said in a statement interior secretary 8 salazar and thad allen, the 9 coast guard admiral(海军上将) in charge of the response, told the public the worst-case scenario could be more than 4.2 million gallons per day.

bp's drilling permit for the well said 6.8 million gallons could pour from the well during the worst-case scenario.

noaa and the coast guard later received an updated worst-case scenario just after the spill began, putting the estimate at 2.7 million to 4.6 million gallons per day.

the national oil spill commission report says those numbers, which were used as the basis for the administration's spill response, were never made public - though they appeared on an internal coast guard situation report.

the report also says the federal government used too much boom to stop the oil from spreading - especially in the us state of louisiana, where directions went out to "keep the parishes(教区) happy".

the explosion on the deepwater horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers, polluted hundreds of kilometres of shoreline and disrupted tourism and local fishing industries before the leaking well was capped on 15 july.



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1 1e0xp     
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
参考例句:
  • the gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • there is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 f7c7eeee199dc0ef47fe322cc223be88     
n.[意]情节;剧本;事态;脚本
参考例句:
  • further, graphite cores may be safer than non-graphite cores under some accident scenarios. 再者,根据一些事故解说,石墨堆芯可比非石墨堆芯更安全一些。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
  • again, scenarios should make it clear which modes are acceptable to users in various contexts. 同样,我们可以运用场景剧本来搞清楚在不同情境下哪些模式可被用户接受。 来自about face 3交互设计精髓
3 lzoxm     
n.剧本,脚本;概要
参考例句:
  • but the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
  • this is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。
4 3e7158a2ffc2cb3d02e77822c38c959b     
n.指责( accusation的名词复数 );指控;控告;(被告发、控告的)罪名
参考例句:
  • there were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
  • he remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
5 746265bfd25f2a1bab71e459c979e0a4     
对(数量)估计过高,对…作过高的评价( overestimate的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • i think you're overestimating his abilities. 我看你对他的能力评价过高。
  • with hindsight, he was overestimating their desire for peace. 事后看来,他高估了他们对和平的渴望。
6 hznziu     
n.劝告者,顾问
参考例句:
  • they employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
7 6eayr     
adj.大气的,空气的;大气层的;大气所引起的
参考例句:
  • sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
  • clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。
8 k3wxv     
n.视野,知识领域
参考例句:
  • such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
  • abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.
9 njhzyv     
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
参考例句:
  • the old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
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