BP accuses Halliburton of destroying evidence in Gulf oil spill case – The Washington Post
06 Tuesday Dec 2011
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Did BP Order the Release of Lockerbie Terrorist?
14 Wednesday Jul 2010
Senator Robert Menendez called the BP deal "blood money." The New Jersey Democrat is calling for an investigation that the oil giant was behind the release of the Lockerbie bomber in order to secure a deal off the Libyan coast.
Two U. S. Senators are calling for an investigation into evidence that BP was behind the release of the Lockerbie bomber from prison to his homeland Libya. This release was made so that BP could secure an oil deal with Libya, these senators allege.
Senators Robert Menendez (D NJ) and Chuck Schumer (D NY) are calling for an investigation that BP ordered the release to happen “quickly.” The investigation, if it happens, could go very deep involving the British government and also officials in the United States government.
Menendez called BP’s oil deal “blood money.”
Schumer said the oil project off Libya’s coast “should not break ground.”
The Lockerbie terrorist was released from prison on humanitarian reasons because he supposedly had only months to live. Now, it has been revealed that doctors are giving him a decade or more.
It’s clear that something dirty behind the scenes occurred, and it probably involved oil. I hope the senators are successful in beginning a real investigation into this issue…and let the guilt fall on those corrupt in both governments, no matter who they turn out to be.
Barton to BP: “I’m Sorry” You’re Kidding, Right?
17 Thursday Jun 2010
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BP, Congress, Energy & Commerce Committee, Gulf oil disaster, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, House, Joe Barton of Texas, Politics, politics as usual
Republican Joe Barton of Texas is ranking minority member of the House's Energy & Commerce Committee. A receiver of big oil money, he told BP's Tony Hayward, "I'm sorry."
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing but there he was, an elected Representative, apologizing to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward on the floor of the Congress of the United States!
“I’m sorry,” Representative Joe Barton, the Republican from Texas, said to Hayward who sat in front of the Energy & Commerce Committee as hearings got under way this morning. Referring to the meeting yesterday with President Obama at the White House as “a shakedown,” Barton said he was “ashamed” for how Hayward and BP were treated “at the White House yesterday.”
What?
It’s unbelievable what big-oil money can do. I know that Barton has received over $1 million from oil companies to fund his campaigns since 2000. And I know that he has, because of that funding, always supported legislation favoring more drilling and less alternative resources. But, that’s different, right? Or it should be.
Taking money from big-oil and favoring legislation supporting them are politics as usual. I’d like to see campaign finance reform but that’s for another day.
Right now, we’ve got the worst oil disaster in history on our hands, and it has not yet been stopped. We don’t know what all the consequences will be or what the cost will be financially, environmentally, and to us as a people.
Politics as usual is one thing, but to let BP off the hook for their irresponsibility? And to do it on the floor of Congress?
BP was warned by Halliburton and others in the industry not to continue with the well at the Deepwater Horizon facility before it exploded on April 20. They chose to ignore all warnings even from within their own ranks. They also chose to go cheap on their operations.
After yesterday’s meeting, BP’s Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg referred to American citizens of the Gulf region as “small people” and he said this right on the White House lawn!
And today Barton apologizes?!
Let’s hope that the residents of Texas’ 6th District, who are close to the Gulf region, realize that by his apology to BP, that Barton is looking at them as “small people” too, and that they vote him out in the Fall.
BREAKING: BP Head Reports Potentially Good News
26 Wednesday May 2010
Posted in BP, Gulf oil disaster, Gulf oil spill, Politics
Don’t start jumping for joy yet, but Doug Suttles, Chief Executive Officer of BP, is reporting that the “top kill” procedure may be working.
“It appears that it is drilling mud and not oil,” Suttles said according the MSNBC.
“What you’ve been observing is most likely mud,” Suttles said.
Obama Says He Will “Not Tolerate” Big Oil Finger Pointing
14 Friday May 2010
Posted in BP, Gulf oil disaster, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Politics, Transocean
Calling it a “ridiculous spectacle, ” President Obama chided BP, Transocean, and Halliburton for their “falling over each other” to blame each other for the massive Gulf oil spill during hearings on Capitol Hill.
Announcing his proposal for legislation to regulate oil leases and improve safety measures, Obama said that stopping the mile-deep gusher is job number one. He assured the public that BP will be responsible for clean-up expenses and not the taxpayer.
Obama is asking Congress to toughen the law on the Federal regulating agency which he feels has a conflict of interest with oil because of leasing fees which they collect. Obama also seeks Congress to allocate assistance to those who have lost their jobs, and for job re-training, because of the spill.
The latest assessments indicate that the gusher is worsening. Original assessments were about 5,000 barrels of oil a day entering the Gulf of Mexico. Some experts are now saying that the oil is gushing up to three times that amount.
