It’s about time that BP get’s held accountable for the human toll of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion:
U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP Plc (BP/) staff after the worst U.S. oil spill last year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors are focusing on whether some BP employees, including several Houston-based engineers and at least one supervisor, provided false information to regulators about the risks linked to the drilling of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, the Journal said. Department of Justice officials said in September that they looking to whether BP failed to properly report changes in key pressure measurement during the drilling process.
This is definitely a step in the right direction. Now if only BP’s corporate personhood could be charged with manslaughter and sent away to jail…
