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goodlove · Jun 19, 2010

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What an ass....
GOP lawmaker apologizes for apologizing to BP exec

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer – 17 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Who's sorry now? Rep. Joe Barton, that's who.
The Texas Republican, the House's top recipient of oil industry campaign contributions since 1990, apologized Thursday for apologizing to the chief of the British company that befouled the Gulf of Mexico with a massive oil spill.
His double mea culpa plus a retraction, executed under pressure from fuming GOP leaders, succeeded in shifting attention from the tragedy, ***********0b5fa8]***********0B5FA8 ! important]***********0B5FA8 ! important]BP'[/color][/color][/color]s many missteps and the stoic British oil chief at the witness table, to his own party's close connection to the oil industry.
The subject of Barton's ire was the $20 billion relief fund for victims of the spill sought by the White House and agreed to by BP.
"I apologize," Barton said to BP CEO Tony Hayward, who was sitting at a witness table for another of Congress' ritual floggings of wayward corporate heads.
"I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is — again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown," Barton said. "So I apologize."
Cue the outrage — from Republicans, who came close to stripping Barton of his post as chairman-in-waiting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. GOP leaders summoned Barton to the Capitol and demanded he apologize in specific terms. The leaders threatened to launch a process to strip Barton of his seniority on the powerful panel, a particularly painful threat to any long-term lawmaker, according to two knowledgeable Republican officials who demanded anonymity so they could speak freely about private meetings.
But it was the notion of an American lawmaker apologizing to a foreign head of a corporation that had caused great hardships for millions of Gulf Coast residents that incited rare Republican-on-Republican rage. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., became the first in his party to demand that Barton be stripped of his seniority. During a House vote later in the day, other Republicans pressed their leaders for Barton's punishment — and at least two in the leadership were still considering that option, the officials said.
As Barton returned to the committee, the leaders issued their own statement:
"Congressman Barton's statements this morning were wrong."
Vice ***********0b5fa8]***********0B5FA8 ! important]***********0B5FA8 ! important]President [/color]***********0B5FA8 ! important]Joe [/color]***********0B5FA8 ! important]Biden[/color][/color][/color] weighed in — lightheartedly at first, red-faced by the end.
"I find it incredibly insensitive, incredibly out of touch," Biden told reporters. "There's no shakedown. It's insisting on responsible conduct and a responsible response to something they caused."
Democrats, eager to tie Republicans to the oil industry during this midterm election year, piled on.
"While people in the Gulf are suffering from the actions of BP, the Republicans in the Congress are apologizing to BP," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
By midafternoon, Barton was back on the dais with a statement that was something short of what the leaders had demanded.
"I want the record to be absolutely clear that I think BP is responsible for this accident," he said. "If anything I said this morning has been misconstrued, in opposite effect, I want to apologize for that misconstruction."
Barton then issued, and House Republican leader John Boehner's office forwarded out a somewhat different written statement.
"I apologize for using the term 'shakedown' with regard to yesterday's actions at the White House this morning, and I retract my apology to BP," it began, and finished: "I regret the impact that my statement this morning implied that BP should not pay for the consequences of their decisions and actions in this incident."
Barton has received $100,470 in campaign donations from oil and gas interests since the beginning of 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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can we say someone is in the pocker of BP.

lets tell him to him to get off his knees

Madiba · Jun 19, 2010

What a shame Obama isn't pursuing Union Carbide(Dow chemicals) with the same vigor...:smt091

Bhopal..

chicity · Jun 19, 2010

All Legitimate Claims: BP Has Paid Less Than 12% Of Claims So Far
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/all-legitimate-claims-bp-_n_617577.html

A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”.
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discovering BP’s use of this dangerous dispersal agent ordered BP to stop using it, but BP refused stating that their only alternative to Corexit 9500 was an even more dangerous dispersal agent known as Sea Brat 4.
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A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America.

Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”.
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http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/toxic-oil-spill-rains-warned-could-destroy-north-america/

NEW ORLEANS — The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said.
Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the oil.
They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more harm than good. The only viable option for many impacted areas is to do nothing and let nature break down the spill.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyCzi7JFE0-cRyBdBUMmDC6Zm9GgD9FS7DBO0

METHANE
Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives. The danger presented by the methane has been largely overlooked, with early efforts to monitor the oil spill focusing on the more toxic components of oil. But scientists are increasingly worried about the gas that can suffocate sea creatures in high concentrations. At least 4.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas — and possibly almost twice that amount — have leaked since April 20. That's based on estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey's "flow team" that 2,900 cubic feet of natural gas are escaping for every barrel of oil.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i-yfHJzPLDeBIhG5JDEF6VbaPR8QD9GDUTTO0

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward was spotted attending a prestigious yacht race Saturday,
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According to an Associated Press report, BP (BP 31.76, +0.05, +0.16%) spokeswoman Sheila Williams confirmed that Hayward was "taking a break" from overseeing BP's ongoing effort to stem the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, to watch Bob participate in the race.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bp...as-oil-gushes-2010-06-19?reflink=MW_news_stmp

raocha · Jun 21, 2010

francie1982 said: ↑

whatever! BP was good enough before why not now, all of a sudden we highlight the British, how many times did obama say British petroleum, I think he should be a bit more tactful with his allies, people are pretty pissed of here about it, obviously you don't get our TV/Press but the man on the street feels like it's a personal attack against Britain, not to mention the effect it's having on our economy which is taking a beating as it is, a few more problems like this and we will be on our knees like Greece and Spain.
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The names "BP" and "British Petroleum" were used interchangeably in the American news media before the current crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. I don't know about the man in the street in Britain, but I do know that most of the people I've talked to about this incident blame the company, which has a history of safety violations in its US operations, not its parent country.

If you want to vent your anger at someone, I'd suggest the BP executives rather than our President.

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