Which company will face criminal charges, and

Geithner, B. Frank, C. Dodd, F. Raines, A. Gore, P. Orszag ? Goldman cronies of the Dem party ?

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No doubt high penalties should be paid, but jail time? The phrase "settle down" comes to mind. I can think of far more offenders with criminal intent that are more deserving than executives trying to find the right balance of service and safety with a mandate to keep prices down in response to consumer pressure.

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It depends. IF these problems are as bad as presented and IF they knew about the problem and prevented or inhibited actions or concealed information that could have prevented the loss of life- then yeah, I can see this as a criminal act.

Those are some big ifs though.

The guys at Cameron have to be sick right now.

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will their execs actually serve jail time?

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Possibly. If this happened in China, they would be executed, like the guys responsible for the tainted milk.

The mms needs to be held accountable, they are the ones that turn their backs when they knew of the maintenance issues, approving the modifications to the bop (I think), etc. Mms will be torn appart and restructed by the obama adminstration.

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I think all environmentalist assholes should be put in prison for the oil spill. It is because of there not letting us drill in Alaska that we have to drill in mile deep water.

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how does the word a-hole enhance the meaning of your post?
ad hominem again?

THEIR, not THERE

We are not drilling in mile deep water. a company that bought a lease is drilling in mile deep water. WE, will not own that oil when its being sold.

this spill makes the point on why ANWR needs to be last.
We dont have the expertise yet. to do it safely for the environment.

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Most people don't realize there was almost one million barrels spilled onto the tundra here in 2006. Wasn't noticed for 5 days. Cleaned up fine.

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nrdc.org
"For years, old reserve pits holding millions of gallons of drilling and other wastes pocked the North Slope. The pits typically contained a variety of toxic metals, as well as petroleum hydrocarbons and other harmful substances. Thanks partly to litigation by the Natural Resources Defense Council, handling methods for the waste in these reserve pits have improved.

While the oil industry has closed many of the pits, more than 100 remain to be cleaned. And, despite advances in disposal methods -- in which most drilling wastes are ground up and re-injected into wells -- problems remain. In 2000, for instance, British Petroleum (BP) was ordered to pay $22 million in civil and criminal fines and establish a new environmental management program because its contractors had illegally disposed of hazardous wastes containing benzene and other toxic chemicals. These crimes only came to light because a whistle-blower reported them to the EPA.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation still lists more than 100 contaminated sites associated with oil industry operations on the North Slope. These sites contain a variety of toxic materials, including acids, lead, pesticides, solvents, diesel fuel, caustics, corrosives and petroleum hydrocarbons. Leakage from some sites has contaminated the surrounding tundra wetlands and waterways, which likely will be ruined for decades.

1. Cameron says warranty expired
BOP built in 1999

2. The BOP was modified by BP


This was said by a guy who actually works on these BOPs. He seemed very confident that BP was responsible for up keep of the valve and the safety maintenance but was not.