Corporations fight over oil leak as spill continues 0
Corporations fight over oil leak as spill continues rt.com Published 22 May, 2010, 08:41 Edited 23 May, 2010, 06:55 Oil spill gutting confidence – and staining reputations Bernard Lagan May 31, 2010 tinyurl.com A month after a BP oil rig explosion led to crude oil being pumped directly into the Gulf of Mexico, the scandal over who is to blame for it is only gathering momentum. An estimated 28 million liters of oil has gushed in the water, though some scientists say the real figure is much higher. The powers that be are still trying to shut off the oil tap, which is seeping scandal, politics and corporate domination into Washington’s on-going investigation. BP’s Deep Water Horizon explosion sparked a fire on April 20, two days later, the government agency that was suppose to be watching BP began its probe. President Obama came to the rescue. “BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill,” said president [double speak] Obama, talking to press in Venice, US. “But as president of the United States, I’m going to spare no effort to respond on this crisis as long as it continues.” The once vivacious advocates of “drill, baby, drill” have disappeared, along with solutions to the problem. Obama sent SWAT teams as the oil reached the shores of Louisiana. The media has coined it “Obama’s Katrina”. “From hurricane Katrina and now with this gulf oil explosion of BP… [these are] things that show that profit’s over people,” said Lennox Yearwood, director of The Hip-Hop …