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Editorial: Guest Editorial: A Native`s Case for Florida Hometown Democracy October 3rd, 2009
Editorial: Budget of Sugarcreek Goes Modern October 1st, 2009
Editorial: Is Nothing Sacred? September 17th, 2009
Editorial: Great Expectations September 2nd, 2009
Editorial: Helping the Levy County Budget August 6th, 2009
Editorial: WUFT-FM to Delete Music for Cedar Key July 28th, 2009
Editorial: Governor Crist Balks on Appointment July 9th, 2009
Editorial: Affordable Housing in Cedar Key July 6th, 2009
Editorial: The Greening of Cedar Key June 25th, 2009
Editorial: Unanimous Consent to Suspend the Rules June 12th, 2009
Editorial: Cutting the Cost of Garbage Collection May 27th, 2009
Editorial: America Must Support Chinese Democracy Seekers March 23rd, 2009
Editorial: Membership Appeal February 20th, 2009
Editorial: Cutting Health Care Costs January 10th, 2009
Editorial: 2008 and Some Fearless Predictions December 30th, 2008
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Accidents Happen? The Dance Begins | Accidents Happen? The Dance BeginsEditor The legal definition of an accident is: an unforeseen event that occurs without anyone`s fault or negligence. BP released its "Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report" September 8, 2010. The report emphasizes the complexity of the event. It assigns no blame, but suggests that many business entities were involved, muddying the water, so to speak. The BP investigators identified eight problem areas, six technical and two faulty human decisions. (The BP "accident" report is available online.) If any one of the acknowledged failures could result in an explosion, it seems that the combined probability of an explosion was predictable. Of the many off-shore oil wells, few explode, except for the one two weeks ago, and the BP well. It is in BP`s interest to spread the blame for what BP chooses to call an event without anyone`s fault or negligence. However, two problem areas were human failings. "Finding 3: The Transocean rig crew and BP well site leaders reached the incorrect view that the (pressure) test was successful and that well integrity had been established." Finding 4: The rig crew did not recognize the influx (of gas) and did not act to control the well until hydrocarbons had passed through the BOP and into the riser." Blaming the victims is underway. Eleven men died and many more were injured. BP says the Transocean rig crew was at least part of the cause of the disaster that BP calls an accident. The courts will answer whether the disaster was an accident "without anyone`s fault or negligence." Stay tuned! |
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