Just over a year after the biggest oil spill in history was finally plugged, a federal report from the U.S. government puts the blame mainly on the shoulders of BP while also including other companies (such as the rig owner Transocean) with partial blame. Even though the story is a year old, the aftermath and the blame continues to go around with BP and its partners suing one another in court denying responsibility for the oil spill.

The most disturbing fact to come out of this report is that it once again found BP was compromising safety in order to cut costs. Performance evaluations of 13 BP employees involved at the same well, showed 12 of them were cited to be doing cost saving work in their reviews. However, BP is not a small oil company; BP is the fourth largest company in the world based on revenue.

So it begs the question, why is it risking the safety of its workers and the environment to make profits? Was the 200 million gallons of crude spilled, 11 workers dead and billions of dollars in damage worth those safety cuts?