As we have said many times in these pages, and not only us here, BP´s failures in safety and environmental challenges are obvious and this report pronounces them.
Lord Browne´s early exit is a commendable demonstration that responsabiities need to have consecuences. Good!
Hopefully this Report will move things along at BP at a faster rate, sorely necessary.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
BP will be accused on Tuesday of failing to provide adequate resources to ensure safety at its US refineries, detailed a damaging report that calls on the board of directors to take the lead in ensuring standards are improved.
The report, by James Baker, the former US Secretary of State, will state: “BP has not always ensured that it identified and provided the resources required for strong process safety performance at its US refineries.’’
The finding is certain to be used against the company in the many outstanding civil cases against BP and could be seized upon by the grand jury investigating whether to bring criminal charges over the explosion at the Texas City refinery disaster that killed 15 and injured 500 in the worst US industrial accident in a decade.
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