| POISONED LEGACY The Human Cost of BP's Rise To Power Mike Magner New York: St. Martin's Press, December 2011 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-312-55494-1 | ||||
| ISBN 0-312-55494-X | 417pp. | HC | $27.99 | |
| Page 89: | "The drunken captain of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, slammed the oil tanker on to the reef in Prince William Sound." |
| This misstates Hazelwood's role. He was asleep in his cabin at the time of the collision, leaving others in charge and an inexperienced hand at the helm. Hazelwood had taken the tanker out of the shipping channel to avoid icebergs. Those he left in charge did not return it to the channel as instructed.1 |
| Page 171: | "Pressure increased in the well hole in early March and there were a series of 'kicks' indicating that things were not under control and that gas could surge up at any time, endangering the rig." |
| Number error: S/B "was". |
| Page 263: | "As BP's market value sunk by $88 billion during the spill..." |
| Verb tense: S/B "sank". |
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