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Saturday, May 08, 2010

BP Fails to Put a Lid on Their Catastrophic Oil Spill in the Gulf

NYT:
Officials for BP on Saturday encountered a significant setback in their efforts to attach a containment dome over a leaking well on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico... For now, they have put the dome 650 feet to the side of the leaking well, “while we evaluate options[.]"

BP's chirpy assurances about their technofix were misleading. Kinda sorta like BP's chirpy greenwashing commercials filled with fields of windmills and sunflowers were misleading. Act surprised. Ten years from now when all the people responsible for this pointless and predictable disaster are still obscenely rich and the people suffering the brunt of this pointless and predictable disaster -- as the damages and costs no doubt still continue to mount -- are still not properly compensated you can act surprised again.

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