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Permalink Reply by Mac Davis on November 8, 2010 at 16:51

"No evidence at this time to suggest that there was a conscious decision to sacrifice safety concerns to save money."

I was really surprised to see that conclusion from a White House commission.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on November 8, 2010 at 17:33

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GULF_OIL_SPILL_INVESTIGAT...

"Yet there was no evidence of a conscious decision on the BP rig to do things on the cheap at the expense of safety, investigators stressed several times. Likewise, representatives of the companies involved in the disaster denied that corners were cut because of cost.
Critics - including a top academic, a congressman and people on the Gulf Coast - are balking at what they see as something close a free pass for BP's history of cost cutting. In the first nonpolitical and independent investigation of the disaster, commission officials say they aren't excusing BP at all, but pointing out there was no clear single decision that came down solely to money."

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