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Serious enough to recommend a neighborhood nearby evacuate. From sky eyes perspective, the area of the refinery where the explosion and then fire happened, an operator in the area was injured. That was coverage from the local abc station in houston at the time of this refinery explosion in march. Thankfully it was only one person who was hurt in this blast but it was big enough, scary enough, you can see it from this local coverage. It was scary enough that it put a spotlight on that plant and not in a good way. Part of what turned up in the local coverage of the aftermath of that explosion and fire was the bad record at that plant. They had a bafety record. In 2015, 17 ants in and around pasadena, texas, reported on their workplace injuries for the year, almost a third of all the workplace injuries for that year came from that one plant. Out of 17 plants who were reporting. After that explosion and that fire in march, the Houston ....
Local abc station in houston at the time of this refinery explosion in march. Thankfully it was only one person who was hurt in this blast but it was big enough, scary enough, you can see it from this local coverage. It was scary enough that it put a spotlight on that plant and not in a good way. Part of what turned up in the local coverage of the aftermath of that explosion and fire was the bad record at that plant. They had a bad safety record. In 2015, 17 plants in and around pasadena, texas, reported on their workplace injuries for the year, almost a third of all the workplace injuries for that year came from that one plant. Out of 17 plants who were reporting. After that explosion and that fire in march, the Houston Chronicle further dug in. They found that on the day that explosion happened, that plant was not legally operating. It was its permit to operate under the Clea ....
Government, it s state controlled. the guy in charge of saudia ramco is the state oil minister of saudi arabia. his government job is running saudia ramco. same deal with the national iranian oil company. the guy in charge there is the state oil minister. you ll find the same thing at all of these giant state-run government-run oil companies in almost all the big oil-producing around the world. it s the kuwait petroleum corporation and the abu dhabi national oil company and petro china. in russia it s rosnaft, it s the state run oil company of russia. it s not run by a random ceo who worked his way up through the company. it s controlled by the kremlin, it s controlled by vladimir putin so he put his former deputy prime minister in charge of it. somebody he goes way back with. he and vladimir putin served in the kgb together. so, yeah, putin put him in charge of the state oil company. i mean, here in the united ....
Are government owned country. saudia ramco, petrobras, pemex. that comes in very handy for those companies. it s particularly handy for corruption i mean efficiency. i mean, think about it, you need policy decision made to clear the way for you to, i don t know, buy an asset somewhere or make some sort of deal? you don t have to bother lobbying for it. if you are the oil company and you are also the government, what are you going to do, lobby yourself? don t bother, you are one in the same, just do it. they all pull in the same direction. having a government-run oil company is also a great way for particular politicians and particular governments to stay in power. that government-run oil company in mexico, again, second-largest company of any kind on that ....