Earlier this week, I posted this...
Color me the Cynic on the spill...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8264000Where I said...
"I can bet you, right now, BP's lawyers are consulting with Exxon's.
Be prepared now for the excess spin and rebranding of BP, followed by a paltry amount of "good will" in the example of "helping out the fishermen" in some vein.
Then as the story is shuffled out of the headlines, the "good will" will vanish, the PR machine will go into overdrive using thinly based "evidence" that BP is "fixing" things in the gulf.
All the while, the lawyers will be screaming back and forth over what this or that costs."
Then today, on Alternet I read this...
The Gross Negligence of BP -- Oil Giant's Trying to Slick Its Way Out of Controversy
http://www.alternet.org/world/146771/the_gross_negligence_of_bp_--_oil_giant%27s_trying_to_slick_its_way_out_of_controversyMay 6, 2010 |
I've seen this movie before. In 1989, I was a fraud investigator hired to dig into the cause of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Despite Exxon's name on that boat,
I found the party most to blame for the destruction was ... British Petroleum. That's important to know, because the way BP caused devastation in Alaska is exactly the way BP is now sliming the entire Gulf Coast.
Tankers run aground, wells blow out, pipes burst. It shouldn't happen but it does. And when it does, thename of the game is containment. Both in Alaska,
when the Exxon Valdez grounded, and in the Gulf over a week ago, when the Deepwater Horizon platform blew, it was British Petroleum that was charged with carrying out the Oil Spill Response Plans ("OSRP") which the company itself drafted and filed with the government.
What's so insane, when I look over that sickening slick moving toward the Delta, is that containing spilled oil is really quite simple and easy. And from my investigation,
BP has figured out a very low cost way to prepare for this task: BP lies. BP prevaricates, BP fabricates and BP obfuscates.That's because responding to a spill may be easy and simple, but not at all cheap.
And BP is cheap. Deadly cheap.(Read the rest of the article. It's excellent and give insight what we are going to get from BP. here we go again folks)