Brazil Bars Oil Workers From Leaving After Spill

[anunitu]

Right or wrong move?,YOU decide and let us all know how this makes you feel.

"RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian court has ordered 17 employees from two American companies, the oil giant Chevron and the rig operator Transocean, to surrender their passports, barring them from leaving Brazil as authorities prepare to file criminal charges in coming days in connection with an offshore oil spill involving the companies."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/business/energy-environment/brazil-bars-17-at-chevron-and-transocean-from-leaving-after-spill.html

[Miranda]

Re: Brazil Bars Oil Workers From Leaving After Spill

Well, it will surely keep the accused available for the preliminary hearing.

“I’ve never seen a spill this small with this size of reaction,” Ali Moshiri, the head of Chevron’s Latin America operations, told the Wall Street Journal in late 2011.

When one is tried for a crime the size of the victim is not generally an issue.