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Lots of misinformation (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Cigarette companies (Score:4, Informative)
"The people that know it have advanced degress" != "The people with advanced degrees know it"
Re:Lots of misinformation (Score:5, Informative)
Where is the "LIKE" button?
Make posts that are insightful, interesting or both.
Watch karma go to Excellent.
Stop posting for a couple of days.
Receive five moderation points. The "+1 Underrated" is somewhat analogous to "LIKE".
Arguably, "+1 Insightful" and "+1 Interesting" should never be used for this purpose, but people are always going to be biased, and much more likely to mod up an insightful or interesting post they actually like.
Re:Lots of misinformation (Score:5, Informative)
I agree... As an employee of the oil and gas industry, I can tell you that not only do we comply with general construction codes, we also comply with a series of codes specifically for the oil and gas industry. For example, I work on the storage tanks which are governed by 2 major API codes (which mostly reference ASME codes) and dozens of recommended practices. That is just the start too, there are additionally company specific standards which go well above and beyond those codes. I agree the oil and gas industry didn't have the best historical record, but we have learned a lot since then and spend most of our time trying to prevent the decades old stuff from getting worse. Anything put in today I feel very comfortable with.
Re:Lots of misinformation (Score:4, Informative)
I agree the oil and gas industry didn't have the best historical record, but we have learned a lot since then and spend most of our time trying to prevent the decades old stuff from getting worse.
If the industry has learned a lot, it has only been in the past couple of years. I quote from that most reliable of sources, Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill] regarding the Deepwater Horizon spill from 2010:
In January 2011 the White House oil spill commission released its final report on the causes of the oil spill. They blamed BP and its partners for making a series of cost-cutting decisions and the lack of a system to ensure well safety. They also concluded that the spill was not an isolated incident caused by "rogue industry or government officials", but that "The root causes are systemic and, absent significant reform in both industry practices and government policies, might well recur".
That doesn't sound like an industry trying to learn from and improve upon its troubled past. It's more like business-as-usual: cut corners, ignore best practices, and hope you don't get caught. All businesses do it, but when the petroleum industry screws up everyone and everything suffers.
I'm not saying that you yourself are a bad person, you may be doing the best job you can, but the people you work for aren't honorable.