Nearly 80% of Gulf spill oil still in water: US scientists
I think that actually BP should not even have made this mistake. Given their prices of oil, they should be having higher standards and would check more oftenly if anything is wrong but BP still made the mistake. Now we have to face the consequences of oil in the water for a long time, possibly even forever.
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Dear Ke Xuen,
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with your viewpoint. I do feel that BP has been rather irresponsible and slow in coming up with preventive measures or preventing this incident from occuring in the first place.
Documents indicate that BP previously made modifications to the blowout preventer(BOP) for the Macondo site which increased the risk of BOP failure, despite warnings from their contractor.
However, we must remember that BP is not the only one to blame. And that each of us here has actually plated a part in this incident. Because BP would not have needed to build the oil rig if we did not use oil in the first place.
I feel that this incident also shows that no matter how advance technology may be, we still cannot constantly rely on it, for it is not the answer to all our questions.
Thank you.
BP failed in its public relations. Its response to the oil spill has fairly quick. However, the way it handled public opinion was quite bad. For example, BP CEO Tony Hayward went on a sailing with his son instead of dealing with the oil spill. BP should have created a plan to help those affected by the spill earlier, instead of telling them that they will be compensated.
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