BP Complaints

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-08 01:02 UPDATE 2-Obama says oil spill ‘will be contained’
WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans on Monday that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be stopped, even as he warned that the economic impacts of the disaster would be substantial and ongoing. “This will be contained,” Obama told reporters after a White House meeting on the spill with Cabinet officials. “It may take some time and it’s going to …
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-06 15:53 BP says captured 10,500 bbls oil Saturday
HOUSTON, June 6 (Reuters) – BP Plc said it captured 10,500 barrels oil and flared 22 million cubic feet of gas at its Gulf of Mexico oil spill site on Saturday.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Recovers Birds

Image by Deepwater Horizon Response

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-06 23:10 Dozens in Florida protest BP’s Gulf oil spill
By Michael Peltier
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Petit Bois Island refugees

Image by C-Ali (knok’d out by lightnin)

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-06 12:10 REFILE-UPDATE1-BP chief hopes cap will capture most of Gulf oil
LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward told Britain’s BBC television a containment cap fitted onto a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico was capturing a large proportion of the oil and he hoped the vast majority would be under control soon. Hayward, the subject of speculation that he may be forced out of his position due to the political fallout from the environmental disaster …
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-05 11:15 Obama: Government fully mobilized on oil spill
WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday vigorously defended his administration against criticism it has been too slow to act on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, insisting it had “mobilized on every front.” In his weekly radio and Internet address to Americans, Obama said his administration had set in motion the largest response to an environmental disaster in U.S …
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-03 09:13 REFILE-BP boss: firm lacked tools to deal with spill-paper
LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) – BP said it did not have all the equipment it needed to deal with the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company’s chief executive told the Financial Times on Wednesday. “What is undoubtedly true is that we did not have the tools you would want in your tool-kit,” Tony Hayward said in an interview published on the newspaper’s website. Hayward said last week that …
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-04 08:46 RPT-BP’s Hayward wants oil business changes after spill
By Will Dunham
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Bay Point tourney shifts focus from billfish to 40/40 Shootout
PANAMA CITY BEACH — The 27th annual Bay Point Invitational Billfish event set for July 14-18 has been postponed until 2011, tournament director Scott Burt said Thursday. The expanding national fishery closure area created by the Deepwater…
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-03 08:12 RPT-SCENARIOS-The future for BP after the oil spill
By Tom Bergin
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-01 17:42 UPDATE 1-Obama vows justice if laws broken in oil spill
WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday that if laws were broken in the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill, those responsible will be brought to justice. Obama, speaking to reporters after meeting the co-chairs of a new oil spill commission, also said energy giant BP would be held accountable for financial losses from what he called the “greatest …
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