Money concerns didn't drive Deepwater Horizon decisions, panel counsel says

** What a crock of shit from Bartlit...schmuck.

By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 8, 2010; 8:56 PM

The chief counsel for the president's oil spill commission said Monday that he had not found any evidence that workers onshore or on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig cut corners on safety for the sake of saving money before the rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 people.

The comments about cost run counter to those of other panels investigating the accident that triggered the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Those inquiries have alleged that bad decisions by BP were driven by a desire to save money because the rig and its contractors were costing about $1.5 million a day and the exploration well was running behind schedule.

"To date, we have not seen a single instance where a human being made a conscious decision to favor dollars over safety," said Fred H. Bartlit, Jr., general counsel for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

Snip* "When the culture of a company favors risk-taking and cutting corners above other concerns, systemic failures like this oil spill disaster result without direct decisions being made or tradeoffs being considered," Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement Monday.

remainder in full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/08/AR2010110800803.html?hpid=topnews

but not by us or anybody we have been able to find.

Another outrage against reason. Had the American public not already been numbed by continuous assaults on rationality by the government and the media, they might at least shake their heads at this whitewash. As it it, I'm sure it will pass unnoticed.

:argh:

It's always how can we improve safety and what can we do for the employees today?