Federal Regulators Allowed Oil Companies To Decide Safety Issues

Federal Regulators Allowed Oil Companies To Decide Safety Issues I noted in my recent article Oil Spills And Troubled Waters: When safety depends on the ability to shut down a system by blocking a fluid flow it is absolutely imperative that the system should incorporate 'fail safe' design principles: the system should fail into the safest possible state. The most widely known fail safe devices are fuses and circuit breakers.  It is basic common sense that a fault condition should shut off power rather than risk fire or electrocution. read more

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