BP Oil spill

[spacewalker]

from what i can remember, they used banned cemicals to clean up the spill, they were saying it was less dangerous than it was. Some feel they did a bad job of cleaning up.
They hired locals who could not work because of the spill to help clean it up.
One newsreport i saw said that employees were not allowed to wear safety eqipment, possibly because it would look bad on TV.
i think most of it is for not proerly warning people to the dangers, people with sick friends will probably be very vocal in their displeasure with BP.
Also, tons of safety violations.

I'm not privy to the clean up details but don't you think it was rather nice of them to clean up a mess they weren't accountable for?

The only safety problem I heard that could be linked to the catastrophe was a valve cap fitted by another company.

Unless there is some official statment as to who is accountable and who is not, that pulls resposibility away rom BP, they are by most americans, going to be regarded as the ones responsible.
As for the safety record, i was referring to a report i saw on the news comparing PBs safety record to other oil companies.

 

[Woodsey]

because you brits awakened cthulu.

Spoiler

dont do that.

I know this is a joke, but I'll still point out that BP is a multinational company, and the rig would have had a bunch of Americans working on it.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Fair enough, but they were originally based in America.

Thats a very poor argument for anything. Just cause something started somehwere, that doesnt mean the origin country should be responsible if it moved. Britain owned half the known world at one point, they should have to pay for everything their former countries did and do now that is viewed as wrong (hunh, guess that would mean us [the US] too).

Anyway, I dont hate BP, but I think they should lower their prices after what happened to the Coast line. And they could have reacted better. The Whole thing was just handled poorly, and that wouldnt really matter if it wasnt for the area it was. If that had been in Alaska, people wouldnt have cared as much (or it would have been forgotten sooner).

... Though Sarah Palin would probably bring it up all the time and it was Obama and the Liberal left's fault some how.

But Americans are Americans, and we're very complacent really. If we werent, everytime a President left office we'd have a Civil War.