A Troubling Response

Summary


The millions of gallons of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, America's incubator for a multitude of wildlife, is a corporate disaster of historic proportions.

Robert Dudley of British Petroleum stated on the May 19 Lehrer "NewsHour" on PBS that the blow-out mechanism was "designed not to fail" so there was no contingency plan for failure. And because they knew it could not fail they did not pay for a mechanism costing $500,000 (which Norway demands of rigs in the North Sea).

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A Troubling Response

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