Monday, July 8, 2013

Top 101 Misdeeds of BP Page 5: Lied about oil spilled.

In relation to the Deepwater Horizon disaster


Lied about oil spilled


53.  March 20th BP claimed that there was no oil leaking from the broken wellhead. http://momocrats.typepad.com/momocrats/2010/06/bp-lies-again-and-again-where-are-the-consequences.html

54.  A few days later they admit to 200-300 barrels per day.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-24/bp-says-1-000-barrels-of-oil-leaking-daily-from-sunken-gulf-of-mexico-rig.html

55.  April 25 they raise the stakes to 1000 barrels per day.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-25/bp-says-1-000-barrels-of-oil-leaking-daily-from-gulf-well.html

56.  April 28 Coast guard raises official number to 5000 barrels per day.
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINN2814249520100429

57.  May 21 the camera that was forced into place showed us that a closer estimate of daily leakage would be 100,000 barrels per day.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/21/868592/-As-it-makes-live-feed-available,-BP-admits-oil-flow-worse-than-claimed

58.  Denies plumes exist despite USF finding and fingerprinting the oil at the depth of the wellhead.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/07/gulf.oil.plume/index.html

59.  Denied oil plumes despite NOAA confirmed their existence.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100609/bs_ynews/ynews_bs2485

60.  Said that the denial of the plume was a matter of semantic.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/bp-good-news-massive-underwater-plumes/story?id=10863883

61.  Nine bp employees were been asked to testify at hearings, all dodged the chance to help understand what led to the disaster.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/us/21hearings.html?src=mv

62.  Denied Richard Camilli, a robotics developer that focuses on pollution detection, a chance to use sonar and acoustic to measure the flow and understand why there was a failure.
http://theglobalrealm.com/2010/05/20/bp-stops-the-flow-of-information-while-oil-gusher-continues/

63.  After the well was capped they said there were no leaks, now admits to leaks.
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/bps-broken-well-is-still-releasing-oil-but-from-where

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