Ken Medlock responds to the BP oil spill on the Baker Institute Energy Forum’s blog. In his post, he proposes an “offshore moratorium on companies … [to] be imposed when negligence is found to have been a cause in major accidents.” Medlock is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Baker Institute.
Read and comment on “A Death Penalty for Offshore Drilling Negligence.”