It's all about the money.
From the New York Times:
"Internal BP documents, including an e-mail message calling the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon a 'nightmare,' show a pattern of risky choices made to save time and money in the weeks before the disastrous April 20 blowout, according to a letter sent to the oil company by the leaders of a House committee on Monday.
"The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce cited five areas in which the company had made decisions that 'increased the danger of a catastrophic well,' including the choice for the design of the well, preparations for and tests of the cement job and assurances that the well was properly sealed on the top.
"Taken together, the documents offer the strongest case yet that BP bears much of the responsibility for the catastrophic explosion that killed 11 workers and the still-unchecked leaking of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico."
Certainly, BP will have to pay. But, in the general sense, this is criminal.
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