tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044712894669170288.post6574434160322387938..comments2023-08-16T10:18:28.495-04:00Comments on IntelFin: . BP could face maximum civil penalties of $1,100 per barrel of oil spilled, rising to a maximum of $4,300 per barrel spilled if BP were to be proved negligenttheback 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/11230591368976168813noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044712894669170288.post-70903179210683069242010-06-15T19:43:44.439-04:002010-06-15T19:43:44.439-04:00just which of the big oil companies would have don...just which of the big oil companies would have done things differently? Hindsight is a great gift!<br /><br />Did You Know?<br />BP engineers alerted federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service that they were having difficulty controlling the Macondo well (Deepwater Horizon) six weeks before the disaster, according to e- mails released by the Energy and Commerce Committee.<br /><br />“I don’t think this would have happened on Exxon’s watch,” Tom Bower, author of “The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century,” said in a June 11 Bloomberg Television interview. “They’d be much more careful and much more conscious of the need to supervise subcontractors.”<br /><br />WELL excuse me your sainted Exxon....... and Chevron and ConocoPhillips.<br /><br />Let’s just take a look at a few of your past misdemeanours, and then we can consider again – if the moratorium on deepwater drilling should be lifted, and place it all firmly back into your nice clean hands!<br /><br />http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/fairy-stories-about-oil-companies.htmlJust ME in Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16361617238761002115noreply@blogger.com