Obama: We’re Going to Make Sure ‘BP Pays for the Damage It Has Done’
President Obama tonight will deliver his first nationally televised address from the Oval Office to convince the American people that the administration is on top of the growing economic and environmental crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, 57 days after millions of gallons of oil first began spilling from a damaged BP well. Barack Obama – Oval Office – United States – Gulf of Mexico – President Read more on ABC News
Gulf disaster? We were warned
WASHINGTON — U.S. government regulators warned a decade ago that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and extensively damage fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater. Read more on Pioneer Press
We’re covered for that, claims QBE
QBE Insurance allays investor fears about the prospect of spiralling payouts linked to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more on Business Day
newsbusters.org ABC political strategist, and prominent Democrat, James Carville appeared on Wednesday’s Good Morning America to condemn Barack Obama’s response to the oil spill. A very emotional Carville surprised host George Stephanopoulos, a friend and former colleague in the Clinton White House, by shouting, “And it just looks like he’s not involved in this! Man, you have got to get down here and take control of this!” [Audio available here.] Carville, a resident of Louisiana, attacked, “Put somebody in charge of this and get this thing moving! We’re about to die down here!”
Obama visits beach threatened by Gulf oil spill, says ‘we’re going to keep at it’ to stop leak
GRAND ISLE, La. – Intent on showing firm command of a deepening Gulf Coast crisis, President Barack Obama inspected a fouled beach, took in what he called “heartbreaking stories” of the catastrophe and declared “we’re going to keep at it” until largest U.S. oil spill is stopped and cleaned up. Read more on Kitchener – Waterloo Record
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