Former BP America president Lamar McKay recently revealed in court that the company knew about the risk of explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig well before it took place. Engineers expressed concern as early as 2009 about the possibility of malfunction, but the company charged ahead anyway, resulting in the explosion that spilled roughly four million barrels of oil into the ocean. The spill itself caused untold damage , claimed nearly a dozen lives and, according to testimony, it could have been prevented. Read the rest of BP Reveals It Knew About Explosion Risk at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Before It Happened Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: BP Court Trial , BP Oil spill knowledge , BP President Lamar McKay , BP Rig Explosion , British Petroleum Spill , deepwater horizon explosion , Deepwater Horizon Spill , gulf of mexico oil spill , louisiana oil spill , Ocean Oil Spill
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BP Reveals It Knew About Explosion Risk at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Before It Happened
