Friday Movie Night - Frontline The Spill

hot buttered popcorn It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

 

Tonight is the definitive documentary on oil giant BP and the Gulf Coast Oil Spill. From PBS Frontline and ProPublica, we have notorious cost cutting and worker squeeze with disastrous consequences.

 

 

BP's leadership failed to create a culture of safety in the massive new company. As BP took increasingly big risks to find oil and extract it, the company left behind a trail of mounting problems: deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations. Each time, BP acknowledged the wider flaws in its culture and promised to do better. The FRONTLINE/ProPublica investigation shows that the rhetoric was empty. From the refineries to the oil fields to the Gulf of Mexico, BP workers understood that profits came first.

Here is the link to the video.

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