{"id":579445,"date":"2010-05-26T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=26026"},"modified":"2010-05-26T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:20:37","slug":"bp-runs-full-page-ads-in-major-newspapers-defending-its-oil-spill-response-%e2%80%9cwe-have-taken-full-responsibility%e2%80%9d-plus-a-must-see-spoof-tv-ad-brown-its-the-new-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579445","title":{"rendered":"BP runs full-page ads in major newspapers defending its oil spill response: \u201cWe have taken full responsibility\u201d – Plus a must-see spoof TV ad: “Brown. It’s the New Green.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two new ironic ads on the BP oil disaster — though only the first one is intentionally ironic:<\/em>
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What follows is a Think Progress repost<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Since the disastrous Gulf Coast oil spill, BP and the other companies responsible for the tragedy have been beefing up their lobbying and public relations efforts<\/a>. Today, the oil giant has full-page ads<\/a> in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today defending its response to the oil spill. From the ad<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Since the tragic accident on the Transcocean Deepwater Horizon rig first occurred, we have been committed to doing everything possible to stop the flow of oil at the seabed, collect the oil on the surface and keep it away from the shore.<\/p>\n

BP has taken full responsibility for dealing with the spill. We are determined to do everything we can to minimize any impact. We will honor all legitimate claims.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

BP\u2019s ads come as a new poll finds that 76 percent<\/a> of the American public disapproves of how the company is handling the spill. And BP is not taking \u201cfull responsibility\u201d for the spill. In fact, officials have repeatedly tried to downplay the disaster and argued that attempts to accurately measure the rate of flow at the seabed are impossible and unnecessary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u2013 Tony Haywood, BP CEO: \u201cI think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest.<\/strong> It is impossible to say and we will mount, as part of the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment as we go forward.\u201d [5\/18\/10<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u2013 Haywood: \u201cThe Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.<\/strong>\u201d [5\/14\/10<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u2013 Lamar McKay, President of BP America: \u201cThe volume estimates are based effectively on surface expression, because you can\u2019t measure what\u2019s coming out at the seabed<\/strong>.\u201d [Senate testimony, 5\/12\/10<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tom Mueller, BP: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point.<\/strong> It\u2019s not relevant to the response effort, and it might even detract from the response effort.\u201d [5\/14\/10<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u2013 Doug Suttles, BP COO, Global Exploration: \u201cSince the beginning, we\u2019ve said it\u2019s almost impossible to get a precise number.<\/strong> But ourselves and people from NOAA and others believe that something around 5,000 \u2014 it\u2019s actually barrels a day \u2014 is the best estimate.\u201d [ABC News, 5\/14\/10<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In Boston Globe op-ed today, columnist Derrick Z. Jackson hits BP<\/a> for its ads:<\/p>\n

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It is difficult to conceive of a more resounding insult to our intelligence than BP\u2019s full-page advertisements<\/strong> in the New York Times and USA Today about its response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

The most intriguing paragraph of the BP ad was, \u201cThis is an enormous team effort. More than 2,500 of our operational and technical personnel from around the world are working tirelessly in coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard, and federal, state and local government agencies.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

But until Deepwater Horizon exploded, BP\u2019s idea of working tirelessly with government agencies was lobbying them to bypass environmental-impact reviews for well permits.<\/strong> Yesterday, the Times had yet another story on how drilling projects have proceeded with environmental waivers, despite President Obama\u2019s so-called moratorium on permits. Deepwater Horizon received an environmental waiver last year and received another one just before the April explosion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While BP will likely survive this tragedy because of its massive profits<\/a>, these attempts to shirk responsibility are already beginning to drag the company down<\/a> in the public\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n

– <\/em>Amanda Terkel<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two new ironic ads on the BP oil disaster — though only the first one is intentionally ironic: What follows is a Think Progress repost. Since the disastrous Gulf Coast oil spill, BP and the other companies responsible for the tragedy have been beefing up their lobbying and public relations efforts. Today, the oil giant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}