Gulf Oil Spill: BP's Doug Suttles Continues to Claim Success, News Images to the Contrary
Always the Star of the Press Conference, BP's Doug Suttles Still Upbeat
In his latest press conference appearance, BP's Doug Suttles continues to claim success in the oil cleanup and spill mitigation effort. His talk turns into a numbers show: the amount of money paid out so far in individual claims ($25 million), miles of coastline cleaned, miles of boom deployed, number of robotic vessels at work on the sea floor.
He can also be selective in the news he announces: that in his recent flyover of the Alabama coast with Alabama's governor, he reports no oil having come ashore. And the offshore efforts to control the spill via dispersants, skimming and burning continue to be "very successful." Yet Suttles doesn't mention that the subsea dispersant used to break up the gushing oil has been identified as toxic by the EPA, and that the EPA has ordered halting its use.
As poorly as BP has been able to control the flow of oil from the spill, it does a much better job of controlling the flow of information during daily official press conferences.
Listen to a portion of the press conference.
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2 Comments
Post a CommentDoug Suttles is an idiot. I am not an expert in this field but its pretty easy to see from the pictures of the leak to see they could do this with a gate system and reduce the pressure down until they could get it stopped and then put in a relief pipe to remove the pressure from one pipe in case of another
Such a mess. Millions of gallons have been dumped into the Gulf. Horrible!
As a part of eco-friendly company, http://carribeanmist.com, I wish there was stricter laws on this off shore drilling. Maybe banning it is too extreme, but making it costlier for the oil companies, without penalizing consumers, is necessary.