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Facing South reports on the Buccaneer Petroleum oil spill commission. A nugget:
Reilly confessed that he started his work on the commission with prejudice, thinking the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster was likely the result of an isolated screw-up by BP given the company’s troubled safety history. But the commission instead found that the disaster was the consequence of what Reilly repeatedly criticized as the oil industry’s “culture of complacency.”
“We have just paid a huge price for the inattention and complacency,” he said.
