BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill

Source: WSJ

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Last weekend, Tony Hayward left for a yacht outing two days after a very public crucifixion on Capitol Hill. So was this a sign that he is a born optimist, convinced things can only get better — or simply an admission that he might as well enjoy himself for a couple of days given he’s likely to lose his job over the oil spill disaster in any case?

Retaining an upbeat tone, in an email to staff last Friday, Hayward again pledged to “get through the immediate crisis as a stronger and safer company.”

That was after a week that saw a congressional grilling, credit downgrades to just above junk status, a pledge to pay $20 billion into a cleanup and compensation fund and a freeze in dividend payouts for the rest of 2010.

But in Planet BP — a BP online, in-house magazine — a “BP reporter” dispatched to Louisiana managed to paint an even rosier picture of the disaster. “There is no reason to hate BP,” one local seafood entrepreneur is quoted as saying, as the region relies on the oil industry for work.

Indeed, the April 20 spill on the Deepwater Horizon is being reinvented in Planet BP as a strike of luck.

“Much of the region’s (nonfishing boat) businesses — particularly the hotels — have been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil emergency response teams,” another report says. Indeed, one tourist official in a local town makes it clear that “BP has always been a very great partner of ours here…We have always valued the business that BP sent us.”


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:crazy:

to the true human impact of their spill reminds me of the republican response to what the U.S. has wrought in Iraq. "It's all good."

and burning turtles alive. No, no reason at all.:mad:

:eyes:

:eyes: Jeez!

I don't know much about how long it might take for the habitat to heal, or how they will eliminate all traces of oil & dispersants...

Since the oyster beds are all dead or nearly so, I guess (once aforementioned deadly chemicals are eliminated from the habitat)oysters might be brought in from another locale and maybe they could reestablish their beds.

Then we have the endangered species such as bottlenose dolphin, smalltooth sawfish, Kemp's Ripley turtle, brown pelican, just to name a few, whose already meager populations have just been decimated.

What else might happen as they attempt to "fix" the hole in the bottom of the ocean that continues to gush oil, gas, methane, et al, in unfathomable quantity.

Guess there are too many variables still in play to be able to answer your question.

All that spinning just left me nauseous.

Remember to clean the chamber first to make sure it doesn't jam up on you.

If enough of you and your ilk follow suit, maybe the rest of the planet can get started on "getting our lives back".