Let's Not Forget Who BP Is. Ever. And Why They Cannot Be Trusted. Ever.

From Sourcewatch

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BP's campaign to exploit protected areas

While BP was been spending big on its "Beyond Petroleum" advertising campaign to position itself as an environmentally responsible company, it also publicly backed moves by the Bush government to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling. BP, also continues to explore for oil in environmentally sensitive areas such as the Atlantic Frontier, the foothills of the Andes and Alaska.

It has also been attempting to woo environmental groups and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature into relaxing guidelines for the World's protected areas and World Heritage Area that sattes that mining and oil developments are incompatible in four of the five classes of protected areas. See BP's campaign to exploit protected areas case study.

In 1996 BP was accused of human rights violations in Colombia. Its Casanare oil field has oil reserves valued at approximately $US 40 billion. The Colombian government has a poor human rights record, and both the police and army are held responsible for serious abuses of human rights including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, torture and beatings.

In January 2003, U.S. law courts ordered BP to allow federal inspectors unrestricted access to its Alaskan operations to verify compliance with environmental, health and safety laws. This was a modification of a five-year probation imposed on BP in 2000 after the company admitted it had illegally dumped hazardous waste from the Endicott Island oil field between 1993 and 1995.

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BP%27s_Campaign_to_Exploit_Protected_Areas

to run the cleanup?

what's up with that dispersant? Isn't that making the problem worse? How come they are even being allowed to use it?

kick and recommend

Just curious,,,

If not, maybe they should be. In fact, one could argue they should be Animal Rights, thus including humans.

"clean" water, air, or food. It only infers clean with the word "health", and there is no mention of the need for those things to be free, in fact, it suggests the notion of charge or money through the phrase "standard of living".

BP has caused a ecological, environmental and human disaster.and I hope they pay dearly

it said there was a $2500 minimum penalty. I interpreted that to mean that if any person spilled 1 liter of oil in a waterway and were caught, they'd be penalized $2500.

Curiously, I also have read that a roughly similar figure applies per barrel of crude. Not sure if any of it is true.

There are something like 158 liters per barrel of oil (google). If these figures are anywhere near accurate, it seems there's an "economy of scale" for big polluters versus small ones. Seems a bit unfair.

that has been obvious since day 1 and why I am so pissed off that Obama hasn't kicked their asses to the curb! :grr:

Now who does that sound like?

USA! USA! USA!

Don

as the major stakeholder in the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, which botched the EXXON VALDEZ cleanup efforts. Exxon took most of the heat because of the grounding, but BP was totally unprepared to do cleanup.

Nothing has changed.