'Your honor, the evidence will be clear and unmistakable: Greed devastated the Gulf.'
BP failed to implement a safety plan on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig despite obvious risks of a blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the first witness in BP's civil trial for the 2010 disaster testified on Tuesday. [The trial began on 25 February 2013 in New Orleans and will take place over a three-month period.]
"There is ample evidence of intense pressure within the system to save time and money," said witness Bob Bea, a former BP consultant and co-founder of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley.