Profits over People

I am learning a lot about the real BP and what really cause the oil spill and negatively impacted the Gulf communities, the state Louisiana and all Americans. 

The BP Oil spill is the worst man made disaster in the US, immediately making BP, a British oil company, the antagonist in this nightmare. Everyone wants to know how such a thing could happen. A leading expert in oil drilling is more inept that one would imagine. During my research, I exposed BP's dirty little secrets and understood why our oceans were flooding with toxic oil. 

BP has a long standing history of disaster after disaster and along with that a terrible safety record. Ever since they started drilling in the US, they failed to secure enough resources and managerial capacity to handle expansion. The struggling firm was forces to make some serious cutbacks to stay adrift in the oil industry and church out a profit each year. 

Eager to expand BP caught a big break when it was offered to drill in the Gulf's deep waters. The risky endeavor was welcomed by top executives at BP and government officials. The opportunity created a new stream of revenue, little to no liability and a pride for the company. the gig was, however, very expensive and the company was more money that anticipated. 

Pressure to turn the tables paved the road for error and oversight was virtually forgotten. Investigations into the cause of the matter reveal this and more. BP was once again more concerned about the bill than the people on the rig and the responsibility the had for them and the environment around the rig. They failed to ensure all policies and procedures were followed, and cut corners wherever they could cut costs. The result was the worst disaster in US history and along with that huge monetary losses for the company. 

Pages will be written about the spill for years to come. We still have no idea how much of an impact it had on our environment  and we will never know how it will affect future policies on oil drilling until some changes are made. The MMS was used a scapegoat and largely blamed for letting the disaster. Although they were blamed as a government policy enforcement agency for not enforcing the policies got more blame that necessary because other agencies were really not prepared to handle the disaster on such a magnitude. 

In my opinion politics will always mar progress and the greedy public will always squeeze all the can from one another. We live in a ruthless, dog eat dog world. in our world(US) the size of the dog matters in the fight because the little dogs can't find. Is this democracy? I really think its more like mans fallibleness and its all B.S.

Njoroge