Is the government turning a blind eye to the corruption of big oil companies?

[Ivan Seeking]

...After filing a lawsuit under the False Claims Act, which protects and encourages whistleblowers, Maxwell lost his job. This week, NOW talks with Maxwell about the personal and professional price he says he paid in pursuit of fairness, and examines an industry under fire for keeping too much of the enormous revenue it makes for drilling on land and waters owned by us all. Are oil and gas companies being protected—and even feted—by the government agency charged with regulating them? [continued with video]

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/319/index.html

A case of big oil and a corrupt government being held accountable? I hope this guy blows the lid off of this business.

 

[mjsd]

If we want democracy and freedom, that' s the price we have to pay? Ironic. We make laws that can only protect profit but not integrity.

 

[edward]

Kerr McGee (from the link) is the same company that left the soil in a number of western states contaminated with perchlorate from their rocket fuel manufacturing plants.