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David Edwards at RawStory notes in a May 30 article that “Oil giant BP has said it is responsible for the Gulf oil spill, but now the company seems to be reserving the right to blame someone else” and that “Fox News’ Chris Wallace questioned the managing director of BP, Bob Dudley, about the company’s poor safety record. While taking full responsibility for the spill, Dudley indicated they may shift that responsibility in the future”.
“We have had this accident in the Gulf, which we’re taking full responsibility for. We’re not blaming anyone yet for it. The investigation of this will determine the causes,” Dudley said on the program to Wallace.
Dudley’s comments come only one day after BP announced that the so-called “top kill” procedure, its latest effort to plug the leak, was a failure.
“Over the last decade, It’s fair to say that BP has had a poor safety record,” Wallace said. “In fact, just over the last three years according to OSHA, the government’s workplace safety agency, BP had 760 what are called ‘egregious, willful safety violations.’ Two other oil companies were next with just eight. How do you explain that, sir?” asked Wallace.
“It primarily goes back to an incident we had in Texas about a half a decade ago where tragedy and explosion of refinery in Houston. Then we’ve had an issue in Alaska as well,” said Dudley.
“In the last three years, the chief executive of the company Tony Hayward has brought in a program top to bottom where we focus on safe and reliable operations and ingrained it in the culture of the company,” he said.
“Forgive me, Mr. Dudley, that hasn’t worked too well, has it?” Wallace said.
AP also reports today that on ABC’s This Week program that Dudley has said that a “relief well is the ‘end point’ of efforts to stop the Gulf oil spill – which suggests there’s little chance of plugging the leak until the new well is completed in August”, and that “that the current attempt to cap the leaking well would at best minimize the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico”.
Here is Wallace talking with Dudley on Fox News Sunday, broadcast May 30, 2010.
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It’s already an apocalypse for the gulf ecosystem.
August is two months away. By then it will be apocalypse times 3.
No wonder Dudley sounds like he’s talking with a mouth full of marbles.
What about that Dutch company who was at the Plaquemine Parish Townhall meeting last week? They said they had a machine which could suck up the oil at the source.
…. having the ROVs very active right now tearing around looking at stuff and even doing things with their little pincer arms. They just tore a little piece off of this white object on the sea floor and are waving little lasso snares around trying to hook up hoses- I think they are practicing on something, training for hooking up the LMRP CAP
http://live.cnn.com/
Dudley sounds like he’s also had a martini or two to giord himself to spew the company line.