Thank you Lawrence

[HipChick]

For remembering those who died due to BP greed

[HipChick]

1. you go Lawrence..

Its a crime, not an accident

[malaise]

2. Indeed

:cry:

[Blue_In_AK]

HipChick, you should listen to the podcast

of Shannyn Moore's first hour today with BP whistleblowers http://shannynmoore.podbean.com/ It's worse than we even know.

[HipChick]

4. Thanks for the heads up Blue..

[malaise]

6. Thanks for that

:hi:

[HughMoran]

3. Just watched the last person's face

:cry:

I'm SO glad that somebody FINALLY showed the human beings who died on that rig - probably due to Halliburton negligence.

He's reading them the riot act too - sometimes I really enjoy Lawrence's passion.

[Fuzz]

5. Wow, first time I've seen that. I was actually thinking that no one has talked

about those who died and showed who they actually were.

[Skidmore]

7. I feel badly for those people and their families, but when you work on a rig, is it

not your job to maintain it and check it for safety? Whose job is it, if not the people who work on it?

[HipChick]

9. If the company is not providing funding for safety and pushing for cutting corners

[alstephenson]

10. What are you saying?

That it was the workers' fault??? WTF?

[Skidmore]

11. Whose job was it to

check to make sure the battery was ok? I don't think this spill was the workers' fault but I want to learn something about these rigs. Do the drillers maintain the equipment or are there separate crews brought in to do this? On my husband's job, he is responsible for making certain that monthly inspections of equipment is performed and check and he and all his team are responsible for making certain the work environment meets OSHA standards. Now the big bad corporation is evil, no doubt. However, at a very basic level, it was someone's job too.

[BootinUp]

12. In my experience

workers are ordered to ignore or make due with malfunctioning equipment, or the workforce is reduced to where it is impossible to check everything and meet the expected timeline, and the managers know the situation.

There was a previous report perhaps you missed it, the company knew there was a pressure problem hours before the explosion and apparently took no appropriate safety precautions.

[nenagh]

13. You know, having spent much of the past few weeks

reading blogs from the oil patch, I understand more about the complexity of the drilling process.

My heart goes out to those who died, because, if they were fighting to keep a well safe as it "kicks" and if the situation of the near blowout becomes critical, as one of the posters to the blog said;

Some men stay on the job but some men run away from the danger.. and those that stay know that if they lose the fight for the well, they may die.

So I've thought a lot about their courage, these past weeks.

[Raine]

8. Yes THANK YOU Lawrence

these men had been lost in all this. This comes down to more than lost jobs and wildlife (as bad as that is) this is people DEAD! :mad: