criminal charges? so i don’t know if it’s a cementing problem or a drilling problem, but I suspect in spite of all this hotheaded blather that it’s kind of like deciding whether a shooting was a gun thing or an ammo thing.
probably whoever’s making the bucks ought to be responsible. So what about criminal charges? good or bad? will it incentivize execuives to maybe give a rat’s ass about whether or not they destroy the earth? Would it offend your sensibility to throw ten or twenty corp execs in the hoosegow for a few decades? would it not maybe give other oil execs a moment’s pause before they go for it? instead of counting on “endless years ina civil court fend off plaintiffs” maybe the risk benefit analysis might change if the executives added in the speedier criminal trial that might occur a year or two from the date of incident and might result in them losing everything. certainly would change my personal risk/benefit analysis.
personally, i’d like to see gas at 10 bucks a gallon minimum. I have no particular opinion on this incident other than it sure looks like someone f***ed up, whether it’s the drill guy, the cement guy, or whoever…if this is just the cost fo doing business, i think maybe we ought not to be in this business…
