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Thread #129466   Message #2917364
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
30-May-10 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: US bigots attack British Company (oil spill)
Subject: RE: BS: US bigots attack British Company (oil spill)
ABC News:
"In two separate disasters prior to the oil rig explosion, 30 BP workers have been killed and more than 200 seriously injured.
"In the last five years ..... BP has admitted to breaking U. S. environmental and safety laws and committing outright fraud. BP paid $373 million in fines to avoid prosecution'"
"According to the Center for Public Integrity, in the last three years, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas have accounted for 97% of the "egregious, willful" violations handed out by OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration).
"OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, willful" safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable violation."

In the Texas City disaster, BP "paid $50 million in criminal fines....and acknowledged violating the Clean Air Act."
It also was fined $21 million by OSHA for safety violations.

MMS fined BP for a near blowout at an offshore rig in 2002.

The Prudhoe Bay pipeline break dumped oil into Prudhoe Bay. Caused by failure to detect corrosion in the pipeline; it had stopped sending probes to detect corrosion in the line as a cost-cutting measure. BP was fined by MMS.

Tony Hayward, the boy wonder exec, has slashed 7500 jobs and made $4 billion in cuts to expenses.

I can find more.....