I know the oil spill isn't sexy news anymore, but BP is setting a big precedent. They're pleading guilty to obstruction and criminal negligence, and their criminal fine will go into the billions before the dust settles. It all makes me wonder if they're going to roll over on Halliburton. Thoughts?
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Originally posted by Forever_frost View PostThey should tell Obama to go fuck himself. Obama signed off on the safety waivers.Full time ninja editor.
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Originally posted by majorownage View PostMy roommate is a doctoral student with a degree in Chem Engineering who does risk/saftey analysis for chemical plants. He says BP was one of the worst oil companies when it came to following saftey protocol.ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh
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Originally posted by Yale View PostIt all makes me wonder if they're going to roll over on Halliburton. Thoughts?
"Of the 14 criminal charges, BP said that 13 are based on the negligent misinterpretation of a "negative pressure test" conducted on board the Deepwater Horizon."
$4.5 billion in penalties, including $1.26 billion in criminal fines
... will plead guilty to a misdemeanor count under the Clean Water Act and another misdemeanor under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
... will pay $2.394 billion to the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation over five years and $350 million to the National Academy of Sciences over five years.
$525 in civil penalties over three years to settle claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the company's reporting on the oil flow rate in the two weeks following the accident
... will plead guilty to 11 felony counts of "misconduct or neglect of ships officers" relating to the deaths aboard the drilling rig, and to one felony count of obstruction of Congress stemming from information it gave about the rate that oil was leaking from the well.
Charges against as many as four individuals also are likely to be unsealed, and are expected to include manslaughter and misleading Congress.
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Originally posted by majorownage View PostMy roommate is a doctoral student with a degree in Chem Engineering who does risk/saftey analysis for chemical plants. He says BP was one of the worst oil companies when it came to following saftey protocol.
<---was on the engineering side of it. You should hear the stories from some of the people I work with that went out to the field for BP."No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
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Originally posted by FATHERFORD View PostI can vouch for that...
<---was on the engineering side of it. You should hear the stories from some of the people I work with that went out to the field for BP.
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