BP Oil Spill Highlights Poor Safety Record, the Worst of Any Oil Company in America!

[KoKo]

BP Oil Spill Highlights Poor Safety Record, the Worst of Any Oil Company in America

“BP is a London-based oil company with one of the worst safety records of any oil company operating in America,” says Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen. “In just the last few years, BP has paid $485 million in fines and settlements to the US government for environmental crimes, willful neglect of worker safety rules, and penalties for manipulating energy markets.” We speak with Slocum and with an attorney representing several workers who survived the blast that sank BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig. He’s also representing the wife of one of the 11 workers now presumed dead who is filing a lawsuit accusing BP of negligence.

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Green Washing of America....BP doing Greenie Ads....while they cover up what they REALLY DO! Warm and Fuzzy is their Ads...but it's to get Average American to see them as an incredible Company pushing Green/Solar/Wind/Alternative Fuels!

Good watch...the Energy Part is towards the end. Can we "Drill Baby...DRIL...to our Energy Indepence? And what about Massa Energy's huge Blow Up in WVA?

MORE...and go to the end if you don't want the incredible Info from the Beginning to get to OIL!

http://www.democracynow.org/

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1. Combine that with this...

"National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration officials last fall warned the Department of Interior, which regulates offshore oil drilling, that it was dramatically underestimating the frequency of offshore oil spills and was dangerously understating the risk and impacts a major spill would have on coastal residents.

NOAA is the nation's lead ocean resource agency, and the warnings came in its response to a draft of the Obama Administration's offshore oil drilling plans. The comments were Web-published in October by the whistle-blowing group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

But NOAA's views were largely brushed aside as Obama went ahead and announced on March 31 that he would open vast swaths of American coastal waters to offshore drilling -- a plan now very much in doubt as a blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico spews out an estimated 200,000 gallons of oil daily, for the 13th straight day.

The memo, which NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco wrote was based on the agency's "extensive science, management and stewardship expertise related to oceans, coasts and marine ecosystem" recommended that Interior conduct "a more complete analysis of the potential human dimensions of offshore production."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/03/noaa-warned-interior-was_n_561615.html


BP's miserable track record and NOAA's warning both were willfully ignored.