BP Oil spill

exxon
the valdeez
nigeria
surely obama should be looking a bit closer to hoime before he has a dig at us
why didn't the good lord make haliburton responsible for the big spill their valve failing or something like that
how just and righteous would that have been

If he wants to 'Kick some ass' about environmental issues, why doesn't he start by having a word with those lovely people at Union Carbide ?

Its a big fuck up...

On the other hand, the Gulf recovered.

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No swear words either.

my sister worked in bhopal after the chemical spill
she said it was pretty horrific
lots of heavy breathing from the back of the classroom she was teaching at

the final judgement of the bhopal / union carbide spiull was announced last week
a lady who had lost her sight
had painful injuries ever since the incident had lost 10+ members of her family
was awarded a grand total of 19 pence a few hundred rupees

the managers of the plant were given jail terms of 2 years timescale
how do these companies get away with it ? well i guess they back george w bush to be president who then backs big buisness right up to the hilt puts pressure on nigeria / india to drop any law suits by with holding government aid / grain handouts to the needy countires

BAH politicians the whole lot of them need shooting scumbags the lot of them ( well apart from boris ) he's just plain daft / ace

@DFP, the exploitation of environment is lot further advanced than you mention,
talk to any proper greenies about tar sands, just spend a bit of time looking into it, its scary.
didnt know Balki could be such a grown up for so long....

the managers of the plant were given jail terms in the months not years timescale
how do these companies get away with it ?

2 years

I came across the following (written by a marine biologist/science fiction author) last week which i think puts the environmental hand wringing over this spill in perspective. I couldnt give two shits about the financial implications of BP's fuckery but the idiot hypocrisy of our species amazes me and i thought this brief rant summed it up pretty well.

Dead zones suffocating 20,000 square kilometers of ocean. Endangered wetlands, disappearing at the rate of over 300 Ha/day. Clouds of black viscous poison soiling the coastlines of four states.

And then the Deepwater Horizon blew up.

What, you thought those apocalyptic descriptions were of the spill? You thought the Gulf of Mexico was some pristine marine wilderness before those nefarious assholes from BP came along and ruined everything?

What are you, twelve?

Everything I’ve just described was old news long before April 20. Granted, the black tides were dinoflagellate blooms, not oil slicks; the dead zones came to us courtesy of the Mississippi, which delivers agricultural runoff from almost half the continental US. The wetlands — 40% of the US total — were being decimated daily: by dredging, by condominiums and golf courses, by the collapse of the very substrate as oil and gas were sucked up from underneath.

Wile E. Coyote ran off the cliff decades back, was already halfway to the rocks below, and nobody gave a shit. Now you start wailing and gnashing your teeth, just because the anvil BP dropped into his arms is making him fall faster?

Me, I prefer to look on the bright side. The Gulf was already dying, just like the rest of the planetary conshelf. The fishers and tour guides were already dead men walking; the wetlands were already doomed. Nobody cared. Now they do, and I think that’s a good thing.

Not because we’ll finally survey the carnage, take a deep breath, roll up our sleeves and fix things. Only an idiot would believe that that’s ever going to happen. Gulf coast residents are already complaining that a moratorium on new wells will cost thousands of jobs; the Obama administration is poised to permit the resumption of oil exploration in the Gulf; and all the foxhole environmentalists screaming about Big Bad Oil will shut up the moment the price of gas sails past $4/gallon. Nah, we’re pretty much like every other species on the planet: short-sighted, hooked on instant gratification, drawn irresistibly to the path of least resistance. The spill could continue unabated into next year, but long before then it will have stopped being News; we’ll forget about it as soon as American Idol starts up again.

yeah,
nice and bleak^^ look around you right now, nearly everything you can see and the thing youre touching is derived in some part from the extraction of Oil, then into chemicals.
but at least you dont burn the shit due to your moronic switching on and off, and on and off, and on and off of the internal combustion engine.
@Dicki, (what have you started, up, again....?)
(goes offf to do some yoghurt weaving)

the BP Global PR spoof on twitter has some good stuff in it and this statement from its creator sums it up nicely:

"So what is the point of all this? The point is, FORGET YOUR BRAND. You don’t own it because it is literally nothing. You can spend all sorts of time and money trying to manufacture public opinion, but ultimately, that’s up to the public, now isn’t it?

You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand. Offer a great, innovative product and make responsible, ethical business decisions. Lead the pack! Evolve! Don’t send hundreds of temp workers to the gulf to put on a show for the President. Hire those workers to actually work! Don’t dump toxic dispersant into the ocean just so the surface looks better. Collect the oil and get it out of the water! Don’t tell your employees that they can’t wear respirators while they work because it makes for a bad picture. Take a picture of those employees working safely to fix the problem. Lastly, don’t keep the press and the people trying to help you away from the disaster, open it up so people can see it and help fix it. This isn’t just your disaster, this is a human tragedy. Allow us to mourn so that we can stop being angry.

In the meantime, if you are angry, speak up. Don’t let people forget what has happened here. Don’t let the prolonged nature of this tragedy numb you to its severity. Re-branding doesn’t work if we don’t let it, so let’s hold BP’s feet to the fire. Let’s make them own up to and fix their mistakes NOW and most importantly, let’s make sure we don’t let them do this again".

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I was 12 when the Amoco Cadiz accident happened where I lived in Brittany. Remembering it makes me cry. I haven't been able to follow the BP oil spill story.

Bollocks

2 weeks after the BP explosion, there was a major oil spill in the Niger Delta (Exxon) which polluted to the tune of a million gallons. The west doesn't give a shit any more now than they did before.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/06/oil-delta-world-spilled
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell

You cant expect miracles, the dirty results of mineral exploration have been increasingly fucking places up. Its not new, but its getting worse.

I still think this event may have a positive effect, or at least the optimist in me likes to think so.

bp is only 40% owned by british people any ways.
38% is yankee owned and the rest by someone else.
sounds like self harm.

yeah,
nice and bleak^^ look around you right now, nearly everything you can see and the thing youre touching is derived in some part from the extraction of Oil, then into chemicals.
but at least you dont burn the shit due to your moronic switching on and off, and on and off, and on and off of the internal combustion engine.
@Dicki, (what have you started, up, again....?)
(goes offf to do some yoghurt weaving)

The thing is, its not just oil. It is every pretty much every mineral and gas too. It all involves people getting screwed and environmental devastation.

Also, pretty much all our products come from china. who power their industry with mountains of inefficiently burnt coal which us dug out by millions of peasants who suffer horrible diseases and often get trapped/crushed/killed. The whole thing makes certain places & rivers pretty toxic. It also increases the wealth of the chinese government, who are a very bad bunch.

who power their industry with mountains of inefficiently burnt coal

how do we power our industry? oh.

how do we power our industry? oh.

They do it a lot worse, truss meh blud.

compelling.

well i guess it makes the americans think
something i think we can all agree on they don't really do enough of
if this is a driver for change in the way we use and generate power then it won't have been all for nothing
if only the yanks would get out of their cars, switch of their air con in their homes and try and think about the environment a bit more

I came across the following (written by a marine biologist/science fiction author) last week which i think puts the environmental hand wringing over this spill in perspective. I couldnt give two shits about the financial implications of BP's fuckery but the idiot hypocrisy of our species amazes me and i thought this brief rant summed it up pretty well.

Thats interesting, but the dead zone is much smaller than the area impacted by the spill.

Greg Palast is the man to go to

http://www.gregpalast.com/

Those sanctimonious Americans like to have someone whos 'gonna pay' when they are wronged in some way. BP will ultimately ask the UK government (UK tax payer = u & me) to cover the cost of US claims. This cost will run to tens of billions of pounds putting the UK into bigger debt and financial crisis. This oil spill is a complete nightmare for us all. Thanks BP.

I think that Obama attempted to relate it to 9/11 because he wants us to think that Americans are going to treat oil spills/oil consumption more seriously now, but in reality we all know that most of America couldn't give a flying fuck about its oil usage, or the impact that the oil spills have had.
They're happy enough just to beat someone up as a scapegoat and go back to their regular, irresponsible patterns.
It makes me upset

how do we power our industry? oh.

red bull and pot noodles.

physics students these days.

Those sanctimonious Americans like to have someone whos 'gonna pay' when they are wronged in some way. BP will ultimately ask the UK government (UK tax payer = u & me) to cover the cost of US claims. This cost will run to tens of billions of pounds putting the UK into bigger debt and financial crisis. This oil spill is a complete nightmare for us all. Thanks BP.

Absolutely no chance of that. Though BP may well end up getting taken over. Arsed ?