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Imperial Oil
- RyanMcGreal 16y ago>(If you are a reporter, this paragraph contains the real news. Yes, I am telling you how to do your job.) Classic!
- tjmaxal 16y agoI'm a little confused is he saying too much government intervention was the problem or not enough?
- gojomo 16y agoI think he's saying it's more complicated than that, and has to do with a certain organizational culture with roots going back many decades. What 'government intervention' do you make (or remove) to change a culture?
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- Oxryly 16y agoThe black swan strikes again and we all know how and why only after it happens. Except of course this should not have been a black swan to BP and regulators.
- ErrantX 16y agoI found this piece pretty disappointing and idiotically anti-British. Despite raising some key points he devolves them into fairly pointless attacks. I especially "love" the insinuation that BP's problems stem from being British and therefore "plodding" and bureaucratic. I won't for one moment dispute that they are; but this is a feature common to such large companies (the world over). And absolutely nothing to do with the nationality. As to his Sherwood forest example; the US engineers approach is exactly the sort of attitude that appears to have caused this accident. In the world of deep water drilling, or so I am told, you don't (or shouldn't) go outside of rated usage no matter what the circumstances. So there is a place for all sorts of attitudes. Once you get past the opening paragraphs he finishes this with an extremely important point: Or is it? What about the safety wells and their drilling platforms? Are they in better shape than the platform that exploded and sank? I'm a bit sad he had to dress that up with pretty anti-British rhetoric, I think it stands on it;s own merits!
- wildjim 16y agoSeveral developed nations have companies (etc) guilty of disasters similar to these. e.g. Union Carbide.