[Newsbot]

Title: Explosion, fire at Alberta oilsands site
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-01-06 17:00:37
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Note: this is the same Plant where that 2 Welders died when a tank they were working on collapsed and killed them. They were employed by a company owned by the Chinese government, and the trial for those deaths will start shortly.

[dino_bobba_renno]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Note: this is the same Plant where that 2 Welders died when a tank they were working on collapsed and killed them. They were employed by a company owned by the Chinese government, and the trial for those deaths will start shortly.

There are quite a few incidents involving CNRL in various locations. I'll include a link, you can see that they don't have a great track record.
http://employment.alberta.ca/SFW/6751.html

[Thanos]

So big surprise to me. When I was up there on that site in 2005 there wasn't a single contractor on that job who didn't want to get the fuck out ASAP and never have to come back. Like they said in the news articles on this incident they'd just finished a repair shut down in the area that blew up. Odds are some manager decided to crank the unit up to 150% to make up for lost production. All the safety protocols and procedures don't mean SFA if the dicks running the place willfully choose to ignore them.

The only justice is that the next batch of repairs, accompanied by the down-time associated with the government investigation, is going to cost them more $$$ than they ever would have made by recklessly going full-bore. But WTF anyway. They're management which apparently means they're all the next thing to God Himself. And they never ever learn a fucking thing.

[BeaverFever]

But Thanos, don't forget the right-wing mantra: "they're creating jobs"! That's all that matters.

The Alberta government will give them a slap on the wrist and let them write off the fine at tax time as a business expense....if they ever pay it.