BP and the oil leak.

Last year in Tenerife, I cut my foot on some broken glass. I went to the medical centre where there's a big sign up stating " English speaking Doctors here."
Great idea , I thought, just what we need in this country. ;) ;) ;)

Tee Hee Nice one :LOL:
 
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Following the 'ownership' post -
Just How British Is BP?
[url=http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/just-how-british-is-bp/]A blogger in NY Times[/url] said:
...So, who exactly are BP’s American owners? Here’s a partial list.

The company’s single largest shareholder is the sprawling asset management firm BlackRock, based in New York City, which owned the equivalent of more than one billion shares of BP stock just two weeks before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, according to the financial analysis firm Capital IQ. (Bank of America owns a 34.1 percent stake in BlackRock.)

The second-largest American owner, and third largest over all, is State Street Global Advisors, based in Boston, with 307 million shares. After them are the mutual fund firm Capital Research and Management Company of Los Angeles, with 247 million shares, and the Vanguard Group, based in Malvern, Pa., with 140 million shares. Rounding out the top five is Franklin Resources of San Mateo, Calif., another publicly owned asset management firm, with 131 million shares.

More familiar names crop up further down the list, like Fidelity Investments, with 124 million shares; T. Rowe Price Group, with 93 million shares; and State Farm Insurance, with 79 million shares.

Then there are the banks: as of March 31, JPMorgan Chase held a respectable 76 million shares; Bank of America, 69 million shares; and Goldman Sachs, 42 million shares.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is another a major investor, with nearly 43 million shares...

...the company was and is deeply intertwined with powerful financial interests in the United States. It’s a notion that anyone inclined toward anti-British sentiment arising from the spill might keep in mind.

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Not only is BP not British as such but the rig was being leased out to Transocean, an American company, who where operating it. Another US company was responsible for the deep sea stuff that involves coupling the well. They must have some sort of responsibility also.
 
This is my design for capping the leak.

I call it the KD-2 Underwater Blitz Bomba
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If theres any Dutch fellas working there why don't they find the one with the biggest finger and send him down? :confused:
 
If theres any Dutch fellas working there why don't they find the one with the biggest finger and send him down? :confused:


Better of sending him to the White House. ;)
 
Apparently the UK is being villified in the US, becase of this, even though BP is owned virtually 50/50 by the US, but it's not being reported over here properly. But the US forgets that OUR oil disasters were caused by THEM..

Obama - the World saviour, can't do wrong, is suddenly making massive mistakes in who to blame. The faulty blow off valve, manufactured in America, the rig, not owned by BP, rented from a US company, all this from the WORLD's largest environment polluter? Get your own in order, before saying BRITISH Petroleum, and admit it's owned 40/39 to America, foo!
 
Apparently Obama is very unpopular at home so he's trying to score Brownie points by being strong and decisive. The problem with that is it's making him unpopular abroad.
 
Its not all BP's fault

So, I hope that the way the Americans are treating BP will come back on them and bite there bums.

The Americans always fail in there duty of care when ever they create or have a major problems.

Do you as an American feel its been handled fairly or do you feel its been handled better than your own disasters?
 
The Yanks don't like to admit that anything they have ever done is wrong. They won't let little things like facts stand in the way of pointing the finger of blame ar another country.

Remember the movie "Enigma" about the decoding machine invented by the Brits during WW2. They claimed they invented it in the movie :LOL:

Obama will end up with egg on his face in a minute.
 
Historical point their. The Enigma machine was invented by the Germans. The first complete one was captured by British forces whilst sinking a German U Boat. The code was eventually broken by the team at Bletchley Park, including Alan Turing using the very first electronic programmable computer.
 
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