NBC: Whistleblower: BP Aware Of Safety Problems MORE Than A Year Before Explosion

kpete

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Mon May-17-10 10:13 PM
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NBC: Whistleblower: BP Aware Of Safety Problems MORE Than A Year Before Explosion

Edited on Mon May-17-10 10:16 PM by kpete

Whistleblower: BP aware of safety problems

May 17: More than a year before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf, a veteran oil industry manager began sounding the alarm about BP's safety practices on BP's offshore platform Atlantis. NBC's Lisa Myers reports. (Nightly News)More than a year before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf, a veteran oil industry manager began sounding the alarm about BP's safety practices on BP's offshore platform Atlantis. NBC's Lisa Myers reports. (Nightly News)

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fascisthunter

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Mon May-17-10 10:14 PM
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1. bastards

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BrklynLiberal

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Mon May-17-10 10:15 PM
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2. Damn. Too bad that no one in the media was made aware of that....back then.

:crazy:

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brooklynite

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Mon May-17-10 10:15 PM
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3. Just to be clear: the "corporatist" media is making the "corporatist" oil industry look bad?

Just trying to keep my conspiracies straight.

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sakabatou

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Mon May-17-10 10:22 PM
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6. delete

Edited on Mon May-17-10 10:23 PM by sakabatou

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me b zola

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Mon May-17-10 10:17 PM
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4. How will the execs explain this away?

Further more, how will Congress help them pin the blame on lower level employees?

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

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tavalon

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Mon May-17-10 10:21 PM
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5. That's why they earn the big bucks

They'll figure out how to blame it on insignificant but unfortunate underlings. It's what they do, I mean, besides screwing up the environment.

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sakabatou

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Mon May-17-10 10:23 PM
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7. By saying he was a nutcase or something like that

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Kablooie

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Mon May-17-10 11:46 PM
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8. Hey, with at 700 mil cap of liabilities it's a lot cheaper than keeping up maintenance.

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rodger7house

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Tue May-18-10 05:24 AM
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9. Really bad

Edited on Tue May-18-10 05:48 AM by rodger7house

I hope it's not gonna happend

http://www.watchgossipgirlshow.com/
http://www.watchgossipgirlshow.com/watch-gossip-girl-online/

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Karenina

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Tue May-18-10 05:46 AM
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10. I believe the correct figure is 75 mil.

Edited on Tue May-18-10 05:51 AM by Karenina

I hope he wins his suit. BIG TIME. This is the group he's working with:

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_&_Water_Watch

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