Criminal Charges Are Prepared in BP Spill

[The Straight Story]

Criminal Charges Are Prepared in BP Spill

U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP PLC employees stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, which killed 11 workers and caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, said people familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors are focused on several Houston-based engineers and at least one of their supervisors at the British oil company, though the breadth of the investigation isn't known. The prosecutors assert the employees may have provided false information to regulators about the risks associated with the Gulf of Mexico well while its drilling was in progress, these people said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203899504577126871591624572.html

[ProSense]

1. Interesting. n/t

[JDPriestly]

2. We will all be following this. The events were tragic.

Lessons must be learned. None of the companies involved really took responsibility for what happened -- that is they did not take responsibility proportionate to the harm they caused. That needs to be changed.

[Trillo]

3. Once again, the charges are against "employees" aka humans,

where are the charges against the corporation itself?

The money goes to the top, why not the responsibility?

[DCKit]

4. +1 Disgusting, Business as Usual. nt

[maggiesfarmer]

5. they're going to go after the one's who signed their names to the risk analysis report

[malaise]

6. Great news

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