Thursday, May 13, 2010

Oil spill: Altered diagrams don't match device

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94067/oil-spill-bp-had-wrong-diagram.html#ixzz0nqLtvp9G

This is unforgivable,people died because of this, let alone the economic repercussions as well as environmental, to the coast and it to can be attributed to concern for non projected cost overrun, rather than human or environmental safety.
Because it all about the profit on the bottom line.
And it only takes paying a fine to make your mistakes go away.


WASHINGTON — In the days after an oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got from the equipment's owner didn't match the supposedly failsafe device's configuration, congressional investigators said Wednesday.