In what will surely take the 2011 Audacity Award Transocean Ltd. made a statement Friday that it had its “best year in safety performance.” O’ no they didn’t! O’ yes Transocean has balls and despite the explosion of its Deepwater Horizon rig that left 11 dead, 9 Transocean employees, and polluting half the Gulf of Mexico they said this
“Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record,” Transocean stated in a filing on executive pay, “we recorded the best year in safety performance in our company’s history.”
But Transocean not only has ball, they have big balls. Because of this exemplary safety record, Transocean’s executives received two-thirds of their target safety bonus.
But Transocean not only has big balls, they have big brass balls. Monday Transocean stated they regretted using “insensitive” wording. Not regretted a poor safety record that left 11 dead, an untold amount of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the loss of countless economic dollars to the poor Southern states and citizens, and numerous health issues to the same all while patting themselves on the back and boosting their paychecks. No, no apology for that. No they apologize for subpar writing of a filed paperwork. I guess the Joe Shmoe who word pressed that bad boy won’t be getting a bonus!
h/t to gCaptain.
‘Reassuring’ the public takes the place of informing the public of the real dangers. This disaster will affect the world, not just Japan, and it is a wise step for all families to purchase a handheld geiger counter so as to know the truth of contamination of goods in the global marketplace. I’d also say that the nuclear power industry’s statements and ‘reassurances’ should be read as a political strategy to retain the billions of dollars it enjoys from government subsidies and research grants.
And apparently, Jon Stewart agrees.
Only dominators in a dominator culture would think like this.