Posted on 05/04/2010 10:43:56 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The British executive at the centre of the Gulf Coast oil disaster hit back yesterday against accusations that BP had reacted too slowly, telling The Times that the company would have a giant steel hood in place over the worst leak by tomorrow.
For the first time since the fatal explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig two weeks ago, Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, claimed that the company was winning the race to contain the spill and indicated that it was ready to fight some of the lawsuits heading its way.
Even as the first pictures emerged of oil breaking through protective booms and pooling round a string of islands off the Louisiana coast, Mr Hayward said the main slick had not yet made landfall “because we’ve contained it”.
He urged the US Government to pursue a policy of “absolute co-operation” with BP. “We will only succeed if we work together,” he said — a day after President Obama’s press secretary promised that the White House would “keep a boot to the throat of BP” to ensure that it fulfilled its responsibilities. Mr Hayward, 53, a geologist, projects a youthful image at the top of Britain’s biggest company. At times, however, he has struggled to appear in full control of the effort to protect hundreds of miles of coastline. But at BP’s Washington offices yesterday he gave a strikingly upbeat assessment of the operation, at odds with forecasts of environmental catastrophe.
“Let’s be very clear,” he said of the slick. “The reason it’s not getting to the beaches is because we’re containing it. We don’t know if we can continue to contain it, but for the moment we are.”
The unprecedented use of dispersant chemicals at the source of the leak a mile under water “seems to be working very
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Isn't it great to have a WH administration that talks like Mussolini wannabes?
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A President who mocks and taunts Americans, who incites his followers to be confrontational, is troublesome.
Most divisive most evil Presidency ever!
Gotta love the United States of Lawsuits.
it has gone from drill, baby, drill to sue, baby, sue. Do you think any of those who file lawsuits will actually WALK, BABY, WALK when they bankrupt another company gleefully??? Don’t see ALGORE losing any weight recently. His fat lard butt flies on airplanes that use....OIL
For an accurate running account of what BP is doing to remedy the spillage at the site, including background on the NK torpedoing (dispelled) and the lastest links including Pix of the “containment dome” checkout
http://www.theusmat.com/
I’d laugh but what you say is true. And that is no laughing matter.
Quix, you've been referring to Barry Hussein as "O'Thuga". This is about the most thuggish statement I've EVER seen or heard of from a US President.
INDEED.
It’s in his blood and his training and his favorite ways of operating.
imho.
THX.
:)
BP is an odd bunch. Big and arrogant.
One is reminded of Enron but legitimate.
yitbos
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