Sunday, February 26, 2012

The worst accidental disaster in history.

Well we all heard about the BP oil spill back on april 20, 2010 when it happened, but few know the dirty details behind it all. I worked with Njoroge on this project and we dug up quite some information together. We found that BP has a history of doing a poor job on many projects. In a 5 year time span BP has had three major blow outs with their equipment which have led to much clean-up.. BP's history of failure and inadequate work had never been brought up until the disaster was big enough to have an impact. More than 200 million gallons of oil spewed into the sea contaminating the water, affecting the wild life, hurting the industries and economy, and destroying the lands. Many people lost their jobs, some lost everything they knew. The disaster was large but very hard to compare to others such as Katrina in the  sense that 11 men lost their life on the oil rig where as in Katrina a little over 1700 people lost their lives..I have learned a lot about disaster, the recovery stages, and most importantly about the dirty history of BP. A company that would slop together a job just to get it done and put many lives, humans and animals, the life of the wetlands, the life of the city of new orleans, and everyone else affected at stake just doesn't sound right to me. I would hope that BP and many other companies out there have learned from their HUGE mistake. Profit is not always everything.. from BP's experience, if you rush through to make a large profit quickly, you may end up losing most all of it.

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