Here are some extracts from a .pdf from oil change.org.
The previous blog shows how purchasing oil from a warring nation may constitute aiding war crimes, as the profits from sales can build military capabilities. Here, supplying vital oil to a warring nation (Israel) lends that nation power to destroy lives they deem of no value (Palestinians):
Oil to Israel:






And let us not forget British Petroleum (now BP) for its flouting of so many health and safety rules, so why would it care about supplying the Israeli war machine?
BP has one of the worst safety records of any major oil company that operates in the United States. Between 2007 and 2010, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas accounted for 97% of “egregious, willful” violations handed out by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). BP had 760 “egregious, willful” violations during that period, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo two and Exxon had one.[389] The deputy assistant secretary of labour at OSHA, said “The only thing you can conclude is that BP has a serious, systemic safety problem in their company.”[390]
A report in ProPublica, published in The Washington Post” in 2010, found that over a decade of internal investigations of BP’s Alaska operations during the 2000s warned senior BP managers that the company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways. ProPublica found that “Taken together, these documents portray a company that systemically ignored its own safety policies across its North American operations – from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico to California and Texas. Executives were not held accountable for the failures, and some were promoted despite them.”[391]
The Project On Government Oversight, an independent non-profit organisation in the United States which investigates and seeks to expose corruption and other misconduct, lists BP as number one on their listing of the 100 worst corporations based on instances of misconduct.[392]
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