BP Complaints

Obama Says ‘Buck Stops With Me Over Oil Spill’
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after a briefing on the damage along the Louisiana coastline caused after a BP oil line ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, May 28, 2010. (From L-R) National Incident Commander U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen , Obama, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.
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We need the military to take over oil spill cleanup
I have a deep concern that this oil spill could destroy the ecological balance of planet Earth and ultimately perhaps even destroy Earth as we know it. I do not think BP is as interested in stopping the gushing of the oil, as in containing as much of it as possible, to sell. I believe they are willing to absorb the penalties, expecting to make billions anyway, no matter what the cost to the …
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Obama Outraged Over BP, Federal Oil Regulators, Axelrod Says
May 26 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama ’s outrage over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has reached “the upper scale,” and it is directed at both BP Plc and federal regulators, senior White House adviser David Axelrod said today.
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LA Attorney General Asking to Boost His Budget For Lawsuits Over Oil Spill
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is asking state lawmakers to boost his budget by million over two years and to broaden his authority to hire outside attorneys so he can prepare for a lawsuit over the Gulf oil spill. Caldwell has yet to say who he’ll sue or when he’ll file such a lawsuit. “At some point in the future we’re going to sue. They might come to us and have a …
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-26 16:42 UPDATE 1-BP shares see-saw on uncertainty over spill plans
LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) – Shares in BP Plc see-sawed on Wednesday as nervy investors awaited news over the oil major’s next steps to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Shares in BP were up 2.6 percent to 498 pence at 1450 GMT, broadly in line with a 2.8 percent rise in Britain’s FTSE 100 index of blue chip companies, as traders cited market talk that the company was close to giving a …
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This weekend, I flew over areas of the Gulf of Mexico impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak disaster. In the video, the helicopter approaches the site of the leak. The small vessels visible in the beginning of the video are skimming oil from the water’s surface. At about 1:00 into the video, as we descend large swaths of oil in the water are visible. At about 1:15, we approach the vessel Discover Enterprise (the ship with the flare burning off of it), which is collecting oil from the small pipe BP inserted into the leaking riser last week. On either side of the Enterprise, there are two platforms visible. They are drilling the relief wells.

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Image by Waterkeeper Alliance – Save Our Gulf

U.S. Government Keeps Boot On Neck Of BP Over Spill
GALLIANO, La., May 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. government piled pressure on BP Plc on Monday to clean up a “massive environmental mess” in the Gulf of Mexico amid growing anger at the oil giant’s failure to contain a five-week-old oil spill.
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Obama faces rising anger over oil spill
THE OBAMA administration is facing a rising tide of anger against its handling of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and has acknowledged that it did not have the technical capabilities to step in and fix the gusher on its own.
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Florida’s CFO wants govt. take over of oil spill response
Florida CFO Alex Sink Monday sent a letter to President Obama urging that he put his administration in full command of stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil leak and processing the claims for affected residents and businesses.
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US threatens to take control from BP as pressure mounts over spill
A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach on May 23, 2010 at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. (Photo courtesy: AFP) VENICE, May 24 (AFP) – The US government threatened to take over the response to a massive oil slick Sunday as pressure mounted on BP to get control of the month-old environmental disaster.
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