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Originally Posted by dav3
If they gave a shit about anything but profit, they wouldn't have skimped on that blow-out valve.
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"We are a responsible and professional company," said BP Alaska spokesman Steve Rinehart. "We work to high standards. Safety is our highest priority."
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Over the past two decades, BP subsidiaries have been convicted three times of environmental crimes in Alaska and Texas, including two felonies. It remains on probation for two of them.
It also has received the biggest-ever fine for willful work safety violations in U.S. history and is the subject of a range of safety investigations, including one in Washington state that resulted in a $69,000 fine for 13 safety violations at its Cherry Point refinery near Ferndale, Wash.
An investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board offered a scathing assessment of the company. It found "organizational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation" and said management failures could be traced from Texas to London.