Attorney Brent Coon Releases Documents Detailing BP's Cost Cutting at Texas City Refinery - Site of Fatal Explosion in 2005.Budgets for Safety Programs, Training, Maintenance and Inspections Were Slashed slash v. slashed, slash·ing, slash·es v.tr. 1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush. 2. , According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. BP's Own Internal Documents; March 2005 Explosion Killed 15 Workers BEAUMONT, Texas Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas and is within the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 113,866. -- A new set of previously confidential documents were released today by attorney Brent Coon coon: see raccoon. of Brent Coon & Associates, PC, showing that BP made massive budget cuts at its Texas City, Texas oil refinery, where an explosion took the lives of 15 workers in March, 2005. The document release, including studies, memos, internal communications  This article's grammar usage needs improvement. Please edit this article in accordance with Wikipedia's . and videotaped depositions, was the second in a series of declassified de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas materials to be released by Mr. Coon, the attorney for Eva Rowe. The releases are part of the settlement of Ms. Rowe's lawsuit against BP over the deaths of both her parents in the Texas City explosion. The settlement gave an undisclosed sum to Ms. Rowe (www.evarowe.com), an additional $32 million to support and promote health care, training and safety for refinery workers, and also made provisions for the release of potentially millions of pages of documents uncovered by Coon. The documents are being made available on www.texascityexplosion.com, the state-of-the-art website provided by the Interactive Broadcasting Television Company (IBCTV) in association with Brent Coon & Associates (www.bcoonlaw.com). Previously released documents and other materials related to the lawsuit are available at the site. Additional documents will be released on the site in upcoming weeks. The new documents trace events beginning when British Petroleum (BP) merged with Amoco in 1999. The new company mandated a 25 percent cost-cutting measure at all its worldwide refineries. Materials on the website show what was cut at Texas City, including dozens of programs relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc safety, training, maintenance and inspections. Other documents show that BP initiated studies and chose the cheaper, less safe, course of action and dealt harshly with some who resisted making cuts. "This is what Eva wanted when she initiated the lawsuit against BP," said Coon. "She wanted BP executives to understand that their history of under-investment and decision-making removed layers of protection and safety in their refinery operations. She also wanted others in the industry to learn from BP's mistakes, hoping it would reduce the chances that this kind of disaster would ever happen again." Coon added that the next set of documents will likely be released in January. |
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