Beta Operating Company LLC, has had 125 incidents of non-compliance documented by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, a federal agency that oversees the offshore drilling industry. Of those, bureau records show, 53 were warnings, 71 were"component shut-in" violations, and one was a"facility shut-in" violation.
" More details on the incident were not immediately available. Two other cases involved worker injuries. In 2012, a piece of equipment"fell and struck an employee resulting in injuries to the head and face." And in 2014,"investigators discovered that an injured party received an electric shock of an estimated 98,000 volts at very low amperage," another document said, noting that the injured person was"not wearing proper personal protective equipment.
souled_dark This spill demonstrates we need to DO MORE. It’s not enough to stop new wells. The leaky old oil infrastructure off SoCal has got to go! The platforms in this spill were built in the 70s-80s. If we don’t get rid of them, this SAME SPILL will happen again. StoptheSpills
This will continue to happen as long as we're still moving massive amounts of oil.
Why is there no teeth in these citations?!!!
S’okay. It’s big oil.