Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!

[Welsh cake]

An accident? Really? It's already being argued that it was an accident which should not have happened. Corporate safety measures tend to be determined by legal requirements,even when the law is patently inadequate and/or can be circumvented.

I don't know the above for a fact in this case, I'm not an engineer. But as far as I'm concerned I wouldn't trust BP as far as I could throw it. If you think I'm being paranoid,look up the history of BP and other oil companies in the Middle East.

I appreciate that. I'm not defending BP, its just that in this particular case its seems to point to an accident, a blowout. Let me make it clear that I have no love or personal bias for BP. The former site of BP Chemicals Ltd in Baglan Bay, Port Talbot, relatively close to the grounds near where I live in South Wales are heavily continmated with benzene and other dangerous hydrocarbons. Half of my relatives, and more recently my aunt died from cancer which is no doubt linked to the site, in this case, they are at fault, they are responsible through criminal negligence:

http://oem.bmj.com/content/52/4/225.abstract

One of our biggest companies, BHP Billiton,has an appalling safety record,being criticised by the courts for being 'accident driven'.Eg Infamously,it installed safety rails in its steel works only after a worker fell into a vat of molten steel,and the company faced massive compensation payouts.

Tragically, accidents happen all the time, especially in steel works. What do you expect? It's a dangerous environment after all, I have close family who work in such places and everyday I worry about their well-being.

We Welsh have probably the most unprecedented catastrophe failure of a blast furnace in steel-making history.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/web34.pdf

Back when Corus owned the Port Talbot steelworks Blast Furnace No.5 exploded, molten metal was making contact with water, the entire superstructure weighing in at tens thousands of tons uplifted itself and span around from the force of the blast. Anyone is free to argue that it was someone's incompetence the incident happened, that they lost control of it, or should have taken countermeasures to minimise the scale of the damage, but it nevertheless the sequence of events remains accidental; the destruction, and subsequent loss of life was unintentional, not the same thing as deliberate sabotage or manslaughter.

Let's not redefine the word "accident" because we're angry people.