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BP CEO says he's 'devastated' by massive spill

World May. 25, 2010 - 05:00AM JST ( 10 )

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WilliBMay. 25, 2010 - 09:25AM JST

Clearly he has been getting councelling from PR advisors. What he said before (that the spill overall is not that significant, looking at the pure numbers) was factually correct, but of course a public relations disaster in todays sensation-driven and lawyer-infested society.
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some14someMay. 25, 2010 - 12:04PM JST

If one person is devastated it's ok, but the whole environment is endangered and my BP (Blood Pressure) is still boiling :(
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GJDailleultMay. 25, 2010 - 12:17PM JST

He is probably devastated by the $60 billion drop in BP's market cap too.

And this isn't a "spill". It is a hole with oil pouring out of the earth.
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adaydreamMay. 25, 2010 - 12:55PM JST

I'm amazed at WilliB's comments. We've got a catastrophe of major proportion and you seem to think it's no big deal. You've been listening to Rush to much. He's good at saying, "It'll evaporate." "It oozes from the ocean bottom all the time." Not in these quantities. If there were leaks like this through the oceans we'd hear about them. I've never heard of a natural oil leak like this. WilliB can you please show me a reference of such an incident.

This is past "sensation-driven" or "lawyer-infested society". This will adversely affect the Gulf of Mexico for decades to come. But you sluff it off. Wow. < :-)
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TumbleDryMay. 25, 2010 - 01:04PM JST

They should drop tons of sand on the floating oil. If the sand doesn't sink, at least you should gain some territory.
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smithinjapanMay. 25, 2010 - 01:13PM JST

"BP’s chief executive said Monday that he had underestimated the possible environmental impact of the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill."

He's been intentionally dogging the numbers and extent of the disaster from the get-go, and so this is no surprise. His crocodile tears aren't likely to fool too many people, either.
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WilliBMay. 25, 2010 - 03:14PM JST

adaydream:

" "It oozes from the ocean bottom all the time." Not in these quantities. "

Yes in these quantities. Natural spillage is by far larger than any human made accident.

Of course it is a problem locally and should be stopped. And BP is doing their best to stop it. (And if you have technical expertise that they don´t, you should contact them.)
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WilliBMay. 25, 2010 - 03:21PM JST

adaydream:

" This will adversely affect the Gulf of Mexico for decades to come. "

And how exactly do you know that? Answer: Of course you don´t. Have you been the site of the Torrey Canon accident? I have. "Decades ago", they had an oil spill there SEVERAL TIMES the size of this. Do you seen anything today? Nope, you don´t.

If you are still writing diatribes here in a few decades, you´ll cringe about your "predictions".
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smithinjapanMay. 25, 2010 - 04:29PM JST

WilliB: Why are you continually trying to play down the potential effects of this admitted disaster? You admit over and over again that you yourself have no idea how much has been spilled, and that you have never visited the sites in question, and yet you say adaydream is wrong, and complete morons like Rush Limbaugh are right. Why would you not entertain the possibility that things are worse than an oil company -- whose interests are in damage control and paying out as little as possible -- claims, and try to do your utmost to contain it, rather than saying this is an everyday thing and that BP are heroes?

Seriously, bud, you have no idea what's going on, and while scientists can only make predictions about how much damage has been done and how much has been spilled, they have been proven to be more accurate time and time again while BP's estimates have been wrong time and time again, as even the CEO admits here.

"Natural spillage is by far larger than any human made accident."

Where are your stats, bud? Give us a link. And before you try and declare this as 'natural spillage' remember it came about through off-shore drilling, which is about as natural as blaming a nuclear explosion on uranium found in the earth.
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MistWizardMay. 25, 2010 - 08:53PM JST

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofoil_spills

Maximum amounts: Torrey Canyon 120,000 tons, Exxon Valdez 37,000 tons, Deepwater Horizon leak 370,000 tons (and counting), Santa Barbara seepage 25 tons per day.

The only good thing so far is that most of the oil is out at sea in the Gulf, but the environmental impact there is going to be huge even if its cleaned up before more washes ashore. But if it does wash ashore it could easily dwarf Torrey Canyon.

And natural seepage? 25 tons is a lot over time (and Santa Barbara is the most famous it seems) but it has time to sink. The particular load of bull that natural seepage is worse than Deepwater Horizon would seem to come from Faux News, and I imagine WilliB is a big fan of that biased load of crap. And so is Sarah Palin. Anything to take the sting out of the new slogan "Spill, baby, spill". Sorry not buying the bull, WilliB.