"What Not To Say When Your Company Is Ruining The World" - it looks like the BP CEO is going to end up in textbooks as a horrible PR spinmeister. Or he's not getting the right professional help.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/02/w...he-world-.html
And . . . . . what if the oil just kept flowing? . . . . kind of an interesting assertion at the bottom of this opinion piece.
Separately, there’s an encouraging sidenote in comparing the two oil catastrophes. The fleeing Iraqi troops didn’t just burn oil; they also opened valves sending some 8 million barrels of crude into the Persian Gulf, making that incident the biggest oil spill in history (so far). While sharp drops in shrimp populations were seen shortly afterward, international studies found that the oil had not done long-term damage to corals or fish stocks in that gulf.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-kept-flowing/
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