Greg Palast denuncia informações escondidas pela BP sobre acidente similar ao da Deepwater horizon e aponta implicações de segurança. Se o problema tivesse sido divulgado e valorizado Deep horizon não teria acontecido.
O debate é atual e importante. Enfim, para a prevenção é sempre importante puxar todos os fios. Esse da informação ocultada me parece importante. O que foi que aconteceu? Quem participou nas tomadas de decisão? quais as lógicas foram consideradas nas discussões? Como se dá nas organizações as decisões sobre quem participa e quem não participa nessas discussões. Quais os constrangimentos que tiveram papeis determinantes nesse processo e como foram historicamente desenvolvidos nesses sistemas. [...]
O tema também tem importância por trazer para agenda aspectos nem sempre valorizados nas análises de acidentes e desastres. Especialmente em casos com proporções como as alcançadas na DeepWater.
Em tempo:
Palast dedica especial atenção ao papel das petrolíferas no mundo. Um de seus livros publicados no Brasil é "Picnic de abutres" que tem como subtítulo "Em busca dos porcos do petróleo. Piratas da Energia e Carnívoros da Alta finança" pela Alta Books Editora 2013.
Deepwater Horizon: Corporate Homicide
BP's cover-up aided by Bush State Department
by Greg PalastApril 19, 2021
On April 20, 2010, eleven men on the Deepwater Horizon were incinerated when the BP/Transocean oil rig blew out and exploded.
“Accident”?!
That’s the official line, and I could have swallowed it — except for a message I received from a very nervous source floating in the Caspian Sea. The source told me he’d been an eye-witness to the BP/Transocean oil rig blow-out — not the one in the Gulf, but an IDENTICAL blow-out in the Caspian that happened just 17 months before its Gulf companion exploded.
The hunt for the truth took me to Baku, Azerbaijan, in Central Asia (and detention by the dictatorship’s not-so-secret police), meetings with MI-6 sources in London, and beaches on the Gulf Coast and in the Arctic. Watch this video from my investigation for Britain’s Channel 4 Dispatches. It ran world-wide…except in the USA.
If you don’t know about the earlier blow-out, it’s because BP didn’t tell you, didn’t tell anyone but its drilling partners Exxon and Chevron — and in a top secret cable, George W. Bush’s State Department. The oil company chieftains kept the devastating information tightly concealed — even though US law required they report such rig failures to the US Department of Interior.
If BP had reported the disaster to Interior, the 11 men would be alive today, because Interior’s experts had tried to stop BP from drilling in the unstable deep waters of the Gulf.
But US executives of the oil giants testified to Congress that there had not been a deepwater rig disaster “in over 50 years” despite knowing that their platform in the Caspian had blown out just months earlier. Interior caved to the pressure, let BP drill, and drill using a supremely dangerous method, ignorant of the prior blow-out.
And did I mention that Chevron named a super-tanker after Bush’s US Secretary of State, its former board member? The VLCC Condoleezza.
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