PROOF: BP (NYSE:BP) Ignored Environmental Regulations For Over A Decade

It's pretty sad when a company like BP (NYSE:BP) puts such little emphasis on environmental regulations, health, or safety. Especially considering they are on the board of the Environmental Protection Agency.

According to Abrahm Lustgarten and Ryan Knutson's report, "A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the oil company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked and a serious accident if it did not change its ways. The confidential inquiries, which have not previously been made public, focused on a rash of problems at BP's Alaska oil drilling operations. They described instances in which management flouted safety by neglecting aging equipment, pressed employees not to report problems and cut short or delay inspections to reduce production costs."

Maybe that's why BP is now trying to take the stance of trying to make everybody happy. When a company like BP puts safety, health, and environment at such a low priority, it's no wonder things like the Deepwater Horizon explosion happen. Now they're scrambling, trying to maintain some sort of integrity when in reality if for the past decade instead of taking shortcuts, silencing their employees, and putting off safety inspections, they simply followed the rules they could have prevented all of this !

What makes it worse is this was intentional. We're not talking a bad manager for a year or two, we're talking blatantly ignoring the protocol for over 10 years now, the protocol that is put into place to keep not just them as a corporation, but the environment and us as human beings safe.