The Midmorning Refill: BP goes on the offense
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If you read one thing today…
BP is on the offense.
The company is one of more than half a dozen polluters named by Climate Action Network Europe as pouring money into U.S. candidates who oppose climate change legislation. In a new report, CAN Europe says the support “is all the more galling because the same companies argue that additional emissions reductions in Europe cannot be pursued until the United States takes action.”
Last year, BP and the other polluters CAN Europe studied emitted 130 million tones of greenhouse gases – equivalent to the annual emissions of Belgium. Apparently they don’t want to have to reduce it even a little bit, because making money apparently is more important then saving the planet.
Speaking of BP, the new head honcho, Bob Dudley, told attendees today at a conference that the media and competitors rushed to judgment after the initial explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf. They were guilty of “scaremongering,” he complained.
Let’s see now. We had the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. It killed 11 workers, wiped out tourism in coastal areas in five states, coated beaches in five states with oil and did untold damage to marine life in the Gulf.
But in BP’s world, those mean reporters were scaremongering. Unbelievable.
October 29, 2010 @ 3:43 pm
People are ill in the Gulf because of the exposure to the combination of Extremely toxic crude oil and Dispersant. Something that needs to be addressed repeatedly by the mainstream media, but hasn’t been. Secondly, BP created this mess on many levels. Not just in their complete incompetence that lead to the disaster, but the part BP played in the Media Blackout, bringing hired Mercs in to scare people and violate civil liberties, apparently so that our government wouldn’t have to get their hands *too dirty. So yep, mission accomplished, people are terrified, however counterintuitive to this notion that they would just crawl in a hole and die, Americans do what Americans have always done. They kicked and screamed. It would have been a lot more effective if it hadn’t been for our own government adding it’s muscle to BP’s through the office of Homeland Security. {that is my favorite part right there.} So is this BP’s homeland or our Homeland? Inquiring Citizens want to know!