"US executive faces task of cleaning up oil spill, BP’s image" by Associated Press | June 21, 2010
LONDON — Bob Dudley is no stranger to tough situations, having protected his company’s interests in Russia even after he was barred from the country.
That can''t be good.
Perhaps most important, he is a fresh face for the oil giant as it tries to mop up the spill....
That so cheapens the disaster out there. Mopping up would be a lot easier.
Dudley has experience protecting BP’s interests under great pressure. As chief of TNK-BP, a joint venture with a consortium of Russian billionaires, he steered the firm through a series of politically explosive disputes that saw one employee charged with espionage, the company’s offices raided by Russian intelligence, an investor boycott, and tax and labor investigations.
Oh, yeah, he sounds like JUST the MAN that is needed in the GULF!!!!
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And what does slime do?
LONDON — After weeks of suffering the ire of the White House over the Louisiana rig spill, the oil industry is fighting back.
Rallying around beleaguered
Too bad we spent all that money on wars based on lies and bank bonuses and bottom-line bailouts, America; you could have been erecting solar panels all over the place like China.
Actually, you paid for those, America, with your purchase of Chinese products and the shifting of factory production there.
Ain't globalization grand?
Steve Westwell, BP chief of staff, standing in for the embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, was interrupted twice during his address by protesters from Greenpeace who shouted, “We need to end the oil age!’’
Only controlled opposition is allowed access, readers.
Read: BP's Bucket of Oil
Sorry, but that's the way I see it.
The hecklers were escorted out of the heavily policed central London hotel by security, which also barred a news photographer from reentering the conference.
So how did the protesters get in?
Organizers said he was a security threat after he talked with protesters.
You know, WHEN are you REPORTERS finally going to realize YOU are TOOLS that could be TURNED ON any minute?
If it were a war zone they may even kill you!
BP’s stock slid to a 13-year-low yesterday in London, and the oil giant confirmed that Hayward was in the process of handing over control of the oil spill, the worst offshore in US history, to the managing director, Bob Dudley.
The owner of the rig that exploded on April 20, setting off the oil leak and killing 11 workers, said the deep-water drilling ban is an overreaction....
(Blog editor sighs and holds palms upward towards ceiling with arms spread)
In addition to in the gulf, there are more than 20 offshore rigs in Britain’s North Sea, although they do not operate in waters as deep. Brazil, which sits on the world’s potentially largest deep-water oil beds, has no deep-water rigs yet but plans to build 28....
Oil has been washing up from Louisiana to Florida, killing birds and fish and coating marshes, wetlands, and beaches.
Oh, yeah, ALMOST FORGOT about that!
A pair of relief wells considered the best chance at a permanent fix will not be completed until August.
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And so did the Glob.
