Deepwater Horizon | Deepwater Horizon
Aug.23.2010
I have in the past, written quite a bit about the BP disaster because a lot of it could be seen coming from a long ways off, given BP's safety performance in the past. Their lack of professionalism offended me. Their actions in trying to stop the leak were a mixed bag, but all, in all, I think it's...
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Aug.03.2010
Will Rogers once said about the third Tuesday in November that the promising season was over and the excuse making season had begun. BP, of course went into the low-balling season in a tentavive way almost from the beginning, claiming that only about a thousand barrels a day (that's forty-two...
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Jun.02.2010
As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spread, allegations are coming to light that this may be the Halliburton oil spill. BP claimed all the responsibility for paying for the oil spill cleanup, and Transocean was operating the oil drilling platform - but both may now be seeking to...
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May.05.2010
I trust my readers will recognize a hint of sarcasm if I say that the good news just keeps on rolling in. Of the smoke plumes that were rising into the industrial world’s increasingly murky skies as last week’s post went up, one – the billowing cloud of assorted mis-, mal- and nonfeasance bubbling...
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Apr.28.2010
It’s a bit ironic, given the events now in the headlines, that I started last week’s post by commenting that it had been an interesting week for connoisseurs of decline and fall; it might have been better to say “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” About the time the volcanic ash from Iceland began...
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