I'm not greenie - but FFS BP - you arseholes

**Tank** · 21st May 2010, 15:12

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/america...over-oil-spill

The US government has accused energy giant BP of falling short in the information it has provided about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, in a clear sign of Washington's growing frustration with BP's handling of the spiraling environmental disaster.

"In responding to this oil spill, it is critical that all actions be conducted in a transparent manner, with all data and information related to the spill readily available to the United States government and the American people," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a letter.

The officials said in a letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward that despite claims by BP that it was striving to keep the public and the government informed, "those efforts, to date, have fallen short in both their scope and effectiveness."

The statement followed allegations earlier in the day that BP had engaged in a "cover-up" about the extent of the damage and the amount of crude flowing unchecked from its ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico.

conts in link ...........

**schrodingers cat** · 21st May 2010, 15:22

Recent history taugh us the term 'Too big to fail' Perhaps we're seeing the creation of a new term - "Too big to fuck with'

**avgas** · 21st May 2010, 15:27

its a bit hard to bitch about after they have drilled is all I am going to say.
A bit like those who think I am crazy to go against mining start ups. I aren't against drilling/mining.......far from it. I am just sick of you lot bitching when some ecological disaster happens.
What do you really expect to happen. The job to go faultless?
Yes it is BP's fuck up........but it was the US Govt that gave them the opportunity first.

**Bald Eagle** · 21st May 2010, 15:33

Originally Posted by schrodingers cat

"Too big to fuck with'

Who the US of A or BP, At the bell come out fighting, my moneys on BP.

**kave** · 21st May 2010, 15:40

The current crises is huge. Even though its not the worst thing BP has ever done (being responsible for the spread of militant islam in the middle east is probably worse) if Steven Wereleys estimated oil flow rates of between 56,000 barrels to 84,000 barrels per day (one Exxon Valdez every 3.5 to 2.4 days) is correct then the Gulf of Mexico is going to take decades to recover.

**mashman** · 21st May 2010, 15:49

she'll be right... there's bound to be insurance cover.

**sinned** · 21st May 2010, 16:00

Originally Posted by mashman

she'll be right... there's bound to be insurance cover.

Just watch your insurance premiums go up as a result of this one.

**Tank** · 21st May 2010, 16:02

Originally Posted by sinned

Just watch your insurance premiums go up as a result of this one.

Im sure it wont be passed on at the pump.

**sinned** · 21st May 2010, 16:08

Originally Posted by Tank

Im sure it wont be passed on at the pump.

Nice one

**mashman** · 21st May 2010, 16:12

Originally Posted by sinned

Just watch your insurance premiums go up as a result of this one.

I didn't spill it

**rainman** · 21st May 2010, 17:18

Originally Posted by Bald Eagle

Who the US of A or BP, At the bell come out fighting, my moneys on BP.

This is a big issue at the moment - large corps vs hollowed-out nation states. I tend to bet on the corps to win, sadly. Won't end well for us peons, though.

Originally Posted by mashman

she'll be right... there's bound to be insurance cover.

Yeah, 'cos money is better than a functioning ecosystem...

Oh, and I am a greenie, and I understand why people want to blow fuckers like BP up. Their work in Nigeria is pretty smelly, too.

**toycollector10** · 21st May 2010, 17:57

I will never buy BP petrol again. If everyone boycotted them it might teach the other companies to get their engineering right. The consumers should destroy the company. But, that will never happen, will it.

And just wait for the next cyclone to hit the southeast. All of that land is very, very low lying. Think New Orleans. All that oil is going to wind up 30 miles inland. It will be a desert, nothing will grow.

And what you see on the top of the water is about one fifth of the spill. It's at other levels in the ocean depending on its (the oil's) density. There's also oil sitting on the bottom of the ocean as well. Anyways, that's what I read somewhere.

**SPman** · 21st May 2010, 18:13

Greg Palast has a good take on it - apparently BP was meant to be in charge of preventing/cleaning up the Exxon Valdez, as well....
http://www.truthout.org/slick-operat...-too-well59178

**mashman** · 21st May 2010, 18:35

Originally Posted by SPman

Greg Palast has a good take on it - apparently BP was meant to be in charge of preventing/cleaning up the Exxon Valdez, as well....
http://www.truthout.org/slick-operat...-too-well59178

but at least he saved them a billion bucks last year