Spill panel says management culture to blame
SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t just the botched technical decisions. BP and other companies’ management, communication and overconfidence in dealing with risk led to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, investigators for the presidential commission said Tuesday. The commission’s chief engineer, Richard Sears, outlined seven managerial findings, including muddled lines of authority and a compounding cascade of small problems that ultimately caused 11 people to die and millions of gallons of oil to spill. “This is something that built over hours if not days, weeks, months. The companies involved each had data. They were each responsible for operations, and if data had…
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