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Chevron Got North Sea Contract Despite IT Safety Crashes
DMandPenfold writes "The UK government gave Chevron the go-ahead in September to drill in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, in spite of the US oil giant's admission that its contractor's spill prediction software constantly crashed and was not a reliable predictor of how far oil could travel if an accident took place. The news comes in a week that US investigations into BP's disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill hit the buffers, after an IT contractor firm refused to hand over access to its software."
BP stands for "Beyond Petroleum" it ceased to be British Petrolem in 2001 shortly after it meged with Amaco and ate a smorgasboard of other smaller companies. It's global headquarters are in London but it is listed on both the LSE and the NYSE.
Besides the GP was comparing the regulatory regimes of the two countries. If the US chooses to implement a regulatory regime comprable to Nigeria then they can expect similar enviromental results.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
You do know that Guy Fawkes was fighting to replace one monarchy with another? That his intention was not to get rid of Parliament but rather to kill Protestant Christians and replace them with Catholic Christians and maintain the political status quo (a group of rich, landed members of Parliament serving a monarch), just change England from Protestant to Catholic rule?
I think a lot of people cheer Guy Fawkes because they think he was standing up for democracy and overthrowing tyrannical states whereas I am pretty sure the situation was that he just wanted to overthrow one religious authority with another. He wanted the same political system (monarch served by ineffectual unrepresentative MPs) just a different religious flavour.
His goal was to replace King James the first of England (and sixth of Scotland) with his nine year old daughter princess Elizabeth.