According to an article from the Wall Street Journal, a team of technical experts have found the BP oil spill was mainly due to BP's lack of consideration of risk and their lack of operating discipline. This panel of experts was assembled by the Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, to examine the BP oil spill more closely. This same panel also criticized the regulators and the industry as a whole. The team also found a lot of bad decisions on BP's part that lead to spill, along with a few technical problems that likely contributed as well. It also identified problems, such as BP's lack of management discipline and their lack of onboard expertise and clearly defined responsibilities. The goal of this report was to provide the government with a better understanding of what caused the BP oil spill. It will work to provide better regulation in the future and strengthen standards of offshore drilling.
I think this was an important report for the government to order. It is important to understand what specifically caused the BP oil spill. This is because if the government understands what caused the spill, they can work to prevent it in the future. As stated in the article, the goal of the report was to just this. Also, it is important so that other companies can learn from the mistakes of BP and can understand how to prevent an oil spill.
It is important that oil spills are prevented because of the incredible damage they do to the environment. Oil spills can do irreversible damage to ecosystems and the animals a part of them. The BP oil demonstrated this when the media continuously portrayed images of innocent water fowl drenched in oil.
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