Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
Louisiana has a very high rate of teen pregency. So how to you deal with it, well you do this: If an administrator or teacher suspects a student is pregnant, a parent conference will be held. The school reserves the right to require any female student to take a pregnancy test to confirm whether or not ...
BP’s Expected Oil Disaster Fine: $17.6 Billion
Ouch, this is going to leave a mark: At its height, BP’s leaking well gushed 62,000 barrels of oil a day, the federal government said Monday in a revision of its figures that reveals how far off initial estimates turned out to be. The government and BP initially offered estimates of the leak at 1,000 ...
Solid Business Thinking BP
According to the Houston Chronicle BP saved $5 million by taking shortcuts while drilling the Macondo/Deepwater Horizon well. BP stock has lost $80 billion. $20 billion placed into an escrow for damages. $2.5 billion in clean up costs to date. Solid business decision there BP.
I'm Noticing A Pattern Here
Lately, there seems to be a pattern in developments surrounding the BP oil gusher spill: the news is always bad and getting worse. Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. ...
Al Gore: The Crisis Comes Ashore
Al Gore says ee need to use a little reason, logic, and maybe some science to understand that we are utterly destroying the planet. Not going to hold my breath any of that will happen. However, in a wonderful article written for the New Republican Gore has his great graph. Just as the oil companies ...
Why Doesn't This Surprise Me
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency tasked with regulating offshore oil rigs, gave BP what you might call a little bit of a pass: A rule change two years ago by the federal agency that regulates offshore oil rigs allowed BP to avoid filing a plan specifically for handling a major spill from an ...
