9.15.2011

"Cascade of human and mechanical errors"

BP Shortcuts Led to Gulf Oil Spill, Report Says - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — BP, running weeks behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars over budget in trying to complete its troubled Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, took many shortcuts that contributed to the disastrous blowout and oil spill there last year, federal investigators concluded in a report released on Wednesday.

(But of course nothing like this could ever happen with a pipeline from Canada.)

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