First Arrest in BP Oil Spill

  • A former engineer for BP has been arrested and accused of deleting text messages detailing how much oil was gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as BP tried to staunch the Deepwater Horizon spill in the spring of 2010.

    Kurt Mix, of Katy, Texas, is charged with two counts of obstructing justice for deleting from his iPhone hundreds of text messages he exchanged with a co-worker and a contractor, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

    The complaint represents the first criminal charges brought against any workers involved in the accident or its aftermath.


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    Interesting coincidence that this arrest followed a recent New York Times editorial:

  • Op-Ed Contributor
    A Stain That Won’t Wash Away
    By ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
    Published: April 19, 2012

    TWO years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, no one has been held accountable.

  • How bad are the effects from the spill? We still do not know for the long term. But these articles are worth reading:

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