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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
Okay, djplong, here is what confuses me. You said, and I've heard many others say similar things about BP, "gross and willful negligence." When was their trial or the investigation that found these legal findings?
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Emloyees who survived the disaster were testifying to things like not keeping the batteries on the BOP units (Blow-Out Preventers) charged. It would appear that is the reason the BOPs didn't work when the workers tried to activate them.
When you have BP being cited over 700 times for 'gross and willful' negligence in the operation of their platforms while companies with far more 'evil' reputations (like Exxon-Mobil) don't have more than 7. It means Exxon-Mobil could be 10 times worse than they are and still only have a tenth of the violations that BP does.
It would appear, from the information that is coming out (and that the press is pouncing on like starving lions) that BP had a house of cards and it's coming down. There appears to be a LOT of dirty laundry that is going to come out.