Can we charge BP with manslaughter for all those workers who died in last year’s Deepwater Horizon explosion? When management is negligent, maybe.

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The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling reports that the BP Oil Spill came about because of industry and government complacency.  Obvious, really.

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BP and Halliburton have admitted to failures in the Deepwater Horizon’s cement casing, and “Operation Dark Heart” author Anthony Shaffer blew the lid off of U.S. intelligence’s foreknowledge of Mohammed Atta’s terrorist ambitions pre-9/11. In the age of WikiLeaks, is it becoming more and more difficult to cover-up unflattering truths?

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First there was the marine riser. Then the unstoppable surge of methane gas, followed by the blowout preventer that could not prevent blowouts. Now it’s the concrete’s fault.

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On August 8^th, 2010, sometime in the late evening, investment banker, oil industry insider and energy advisor to President George W. Bush, Matthew Simmons, put on a pair of swimming trunks, climbed into his hot tub at his Maine home and attempted to relax after a long day’s work. By 10:00pm Simmons had been found dead, floating in the hot tub of an apparent drowning.

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“Do I think this BP spill is going to be the Three Mile Island of off-shore drilling? I don’t think so.” – Mississippi governor Haley Barbour 1979 was a banner year for energy-industry disasters in the United States. In the course of two months, two massive environment-wrecking events occurred that became the highlight of news [...]

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Taken from the NASA website, the silver cloud-like blob in the lower right of the picture is a shot of the insatiable oil spill currently ruining the Gulf of Mexico.  The spill caused by the 4/20 The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion is spewing out 42,000 gallons a day. Oil is expected to hit land [...]

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