Deepwater Horizon and the Good Ole US of Arseholes V The UK

[Walloper]

Why are BP getting all of the blame for this?
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[Raffles]

It's Obama's way of diverting attention away from some of the other problems that his Marxist administration faces.
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[Hetzer]

[pa_broon74]

Not sure.

I think they have over all corporate responsibility. Its not being very widely reported at all that compensation would come not only from BP but also from Halliburton and Transoceanic.

What is entertaining though are some of the excellent comments coming out of the mouths of the most cretinous Americans ever. In a sense, we're getting our own back by giving them an airing. Even Obama's posturing about kicking ass is a bit pathetic.


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[Dom]

BP were running the rig, ergo it's ultimately their responsibility. I don't see why it's "US vs UK". My patriotism certainly doesn't extend to oil companies. Particularly ones with records like this.
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[Frost]

Put a 3 litre bottle of water on the palm of your hand. Quite heavy? Thats 1ft or so of water. Imagine the bottle was 5000ft tall. Your hand would be smashed into the floor and all its bones broken. That is the depth that the well is at. They have done some very impressive work with remotely operated vehicles to try to tackle the problem despite the fast that it is very hard to know what actually went wrong they are still trying to avoid it happening again.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/25/us/20100525-topkill-diagram.html

Was very informative in showing what they have tried. BP have said that they will use all the funds from the capture of the oil to fund the clean up operation, however they only own 65% of the well, and the US government will be taking 18% in duty.

So considering that BP has so far been the only company attempting to stop the spill, clean things up, and is the only one of the 3 companies involved that isn't making money off this disaster i feel they are a little hard done by. Yeah big business is always evil, and he oil companies are pretty big, but i'd have to ive them a 7 or 8 out of 10 for effort which is a shit load more than normal when a big company fucks up. I think they have probably just spent too much time and money trying to fix the problem rather than on PR.

[yuri2085]

history repeats

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[Frost]

I don't think he is truely anti british, i think he wants to distance himself from the commitment to the whole special relationship thing that bush was so keen to cultivate.

We've got our falklands oil to go with our north sea oil so fuck um

[pa_broon74]

I think his administration holds the view that Britain and the so called special relationship are a painful reminder of the war in Iraq and the unfettered support the Blair government gave to George W Bush's administration.

Its just populist political bullshit, Obama's no different. Going by what US bloggers are saying, they're as unimpressed with what Obama's doing as he seems to be with BP.

One comment I read goes along the lines of Obama not being able to sort it out because the well-head is 5000ft under water and he can only walk on top of it.


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[Didge]

In a few years time, just like all other oil spills in the past, everything will be back to normal.

Oil spills, whilst messy, are not like man-made chemical spills or nuclear contamination.
Big clean-ups, and the bacterial breakdown of the rest of the crude oil, (crude is a natural substance, and thus will eventually disappear naturally), will ensure no lasting affects.

Crude has, is, and always will be, leaking naturally from fissures in the ground and under the sea.
Nothing to do with man, it naturally just leaks out constantly.
There must have been billions of tons of the stuff seeping out over the centuries, but it causes no major problems.

A good side effect of this sort of spill, is that it sends all the sandal-wearing yogurt weavers into absolute apoplexy, and that can only ever be a good thing.

[Raffles]

[colin1]

[Walloper]

[Itchy]

[Walloper]

[Dom]

[Mushroom]

[Itchy]

Union Carbide, Bhophal 25000 dead, and the compensation took 20 years to arrive. Even then it wasn't even 10% of what was demanded.
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[Walloper]

The Septics love to roll the Brits whenever the fancy takes them.
This I blame on King George III for not slapping the cheeky fuckers earlier.
They are led as sheep and can be a despicable bunch of halfwits when poked by upstarts, troublemakers or religious freeques.

I work for American companies so maybe I should Zip it now....
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[Albion]

[pa_broon74]

[Nick__C]

Is it not Transocean's fault because of the faulty BOP but BP's responsibility for the clean up because it's their oil? I read somewhere that Transocean had a couple of other faulty BOP's in India..?
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