How about this not so little data set
http://www.osha.gov/dep/bp/BP_Citation_Willful_All.pdf
479 pages of violations
Feel free to compare it with other companies
or you can choose to trust my source.
"OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, wilful" safety
violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had
two and Exxon had one comparable citation."
Jeff
Julian Bradley wrote:
> In the Gulf Coast there are more than 600 natural oil seeps that leak
> about one million barrels of oil per year.
>
> ONE MILLION BARRELS OF OIL PER YEAR NATURALLY!!!
>
> source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_seep
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> Now I not only resent what has been said in the US by both media and
> politicians, I also understand what Tony Hayward has been saying, no
> doubt reported entirely out of context.
>
> Go find a seep, move a globule to your beach and claim a million bucks
> from BP - sounds a good game.
>
> Time to call a halt.
>
> We all wanted the oil, not least the US. Their regulatory failure was
> central, especially with so many different companies involved.
> Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron are all named alongside BP in
> lawsuits already filed, but somehow seem to be omitted from Obama's
> comments.
>
> Good to see some people taking this up, politely but firmly.
>
> Sad to see the BBC being so pathetic.
>
> Julian
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