Halliburton Implicated in Gulf Oil Spill

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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/4/28/82733/7847

Halliburton Implicated in Gulf Oil Spill

by Steven D
Wed Apr 28th, 2010 at 12:30:53 PM EST


The worst oil spill in the history of the Gulf of Mexico is occurring as we speak. This 600 mile oil slick may very quickly rival the Exxon Valdez tanker spill as the greatest disaster in US oil industry history.

And at the center of this ecological and economic disaster created when the oil rig owned by British Petroleum a/k/a BP Petroleum drilling in 5000 feet of water exploded, and which has taken the lives of at least 11 oil rig workers (that we know about) is a company with whom we are all too familiar: Halliburton or as most of us like to refer to it, former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney's retirement fund.

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I don't know how much blame can be laid at the feet of Halliburton for the disaster occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, but I do know what the widow of one Halliburton worker is alleging in her lawsuit about the role it played in the explosion that killed her husband:

Her lawsuit charges that Halliburton, an oil services industry firm which prior to the explosion "was engaged in cementing operations of the well and wellcap... improperly and negligently performed these duties, which was a cause of the explosion."

Those are pretty bold and stark allegations of wrongdoing. Yet given Halliburton's track record, can we dismiss them out of hand? Hardly. On the contrary, I suspect the more we learn in the coming days, the more Halliburton will be implicated as one of the principal responsible parties for this catastrophe of unprecedented proportions which may shape the future lives of millions of Gulf Coast residents for decades to come.