If they gave a shit about anything but profit, they wouldn't have skimped on that blow-out valve.

sickening :throwup:throwup

Silverstein pulled it, he's part of the APL (anti pelican league)

"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.

I wish someone would put a cap on the damn Volcano in Iceland. Makes me sick to my stomach.

This thread made me think about the Exxon Valdez. I was stationed in Anchorage at the time and took a ride down to Seward to volunteer. It was a real mess and I wondered what it looked like now. Found this on YouTube. Quite sad...and maddening.

60 minutes just had a great piece with one of the survivors of the rig explosion. That guy had a great story about how he escaped. Anyway, he talked a lot about some BP bigwigs visiting the rig, who basically superseded Transocean's safety procedures in the interest of faster drlling. Combine that with a faulty rubber gasket on the blowout valve(which was known about beforehand) and you have a giant fail which is going to fuck up the oceans for quite a while.

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Done here...

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