How Bain Capital helped BP blow up the Deepwater Horizon
"I almost fell off the barstool when I read that it was Bain Capital (Mitt Romney, former CEO), that told oil giant BP it was a good idea to cut costs. The cuts would lead to death, mayhem and the destruction of the Gulf Coast (not to mention BPs poisoning of Alaska, Africa, Central Asia and Colombia).
In 2007, after BP's criminal negligence and penny-pinching led to the explosion at the BP oil refinery on the Gulf Coast, in Texas City, Texas, the company brought in industry pooh-bah James Baker, their lawyer and former Secretary of State, to write a report. Baker is Big Oil's BFF, but in this case, he was horrified, and told BP to get its act together and spend some real money on operating safety.
BP didn't like Baker's recommendation nor did it like another report by its own consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton which advised the company to ...get its act together and spend money on safety.
When two respected industry voices agree that you'd better start spending and thinking while you're operating in a deadly business, a corporation's CEO has only one choice: find a consulting house of ill repute to contradict the others and tell you what you want to hear."
http://www.gregpalast.com/how-bain-capital-helped-bpblow-up-the-deepwater-horizon/#more-6241
I know this is a month old... But I just thought it was worth posting...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Leaving death behind them. An established pattern. Yes the information it is out there, it only remains to be put together so that the public can understand, that this is not what any form of business model should look like.
It's not even crooked capitalism. It's plundering and cronyism, hit and run, like pirates. And it's gone on for so long unopposed, it's literally killing or has killed the host. Thanks for posting it.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Ahoy!
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Thank you!
Shagman
(135 posts)... that Baker could be "horrified" by any sort of amoral behavior.
If any company, treated as a person, deserved the death penalty, BP is it.