Tyrone Benton: We Told BP About Faulty Safety Part

I spent 30 years working in middle management for a major world company. I saw many times that the company pushed us to ignore Federal Regulations to save money and hope we didn't get caught. In a cost annallisis they would figure out how many times they needed to get away with something to pay for a fine if caught. I've seen the company pay someone to fall on their swored for the company when they got caught breaking the rules. Now in my buisness if the Feds decided it was a willful violation of the rules it could be a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. The key word he is "could be". I saw one fine and no one sent to jail. So, #1 until the Feds actually inforce the laws on the books, there is no reason to make more laws. #2 Until the Feds impose penalties on the companies, not the employees, that make breaking the law unprofitable, they will just pay fines and keep going as they presently do.

my suggestion for those in charge is that any attention BHP pays
to drilling relief wells, or worrying about the siphoning of
oil from the DEEPWATER blowout distracts them from the
key to this entire affair.

it's the leaking/blownout well.

back a few weeks, BHP was complaining that the cap
and siphon pipes they had installed had clogged
with frozen sediments and slush.

i'd say they were onto something.

simply stop the siphoning, allow the well
to clog the cap and be done with it.

there is no reason this particular pipe has
to leak. put a permanent cap or plug in it
and call it a day.

Maybe Joe Barton and Michelle Bachman can apologize to the workers killed on the oil rig instead of the wealthy executives losing money due to their own corporate negligence