BP Complaints

BP letter shows negligence
The Washington Post says BP opted to keep an ineffective test valve rather than replacing it with one that might have pinched off the flow of oil helping avert the Gulf oil spill disaster.
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Tracking Gulf oil spill from the air: NASA photograph shows path of the slick
NASA photoNearly a month after a deadly explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the damaged well on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continued to spill oil. In the weeks since the accident occurred, the oil slick has…
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FULL tinyurl.com UNCENSORED SINKING OIL RIG functionaries are mobilizing for a cleanup surgery in case a large oil spill occurs, in what has become one of the worst industry disasters in decades.afterward listing for most of Wednesday, the 0 million political platform 41 miles off the Seacoast of Louisiana sunk in 5000 feet of pee at hot 10 am Thursday. Seventeen people were injured, and 11 are notwithstanding missing from the explosion. The rest of the crew of 126 filed into lifeboats or jumped nearly 100 feet from the weapons platform before being pulled from the irrigate by Seacoast Guard rescue crews. As the intense fire burned the spewing oil off on Wednesday, early meter readings were that the set fire didn’t present significant peril to the coastal ecosystem. But with the set now sunk and the fire out, concerns are now growing that the post dismissed mirror a deep-piss spill caused by a fire on the West Atlas rig off Australia last year, which environmentalists likened to a “disaster movie.”
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CoastGuardNews.com NEW ORLEANS – Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors April 21, 2010. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon’s 126 person crew. US Coast Guard video by Air Station New Orleans

AP: Emerging oil rig evidence shows lack of regulation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first firm evidence of what likely caused the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil blowout — a devastating sequence of equipment failures — drives home a central unsettling point about America’s oil industry: key safety features at tens of thousands of U.S. offshore rigs are barely regulated.

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Rep. Waxman says congressional investigation shows Gulf oil well’s blowout preventer had leak
WASHINGTON – Rep. Henry Waxman says that his committee’s investigation into the Gulf oil spill reveals that a key safety device, the blowout preventer, had a leak in a crucial hydraulic system.

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Emerging oil rig evidence shows lack of regulation
The first firm evidence of what likely caused the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil blowout — a devastating sequence of equipment failures — drives home a central unsettling point about America’s oil industry: key safety features at tens of thousands of U.S. offshore rigs are barely regulated.

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Fidel Castro: Oil spill shows corporate domination
HAVANA, Cuba — Fidel Castro says the spreading oil slick fouling the Gulf of Mexico is proof that the world’s most powerful governments cannot control large corporations that now dictate the public’s destiny.

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