Democratic Party congressmen have released a document from the British oil company British Petroleum (BP) assessing the worst possible scenario for an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, reports hrt.hr
BP’s internal assessment indicates that under the worst-case scenario, as much as 100,000 barrels of oil are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico daily. First, they said a thousand, then five thousand, and now we are reaching 100,000 barrels. Their technology caused this; it is their fault. They should have known from the very beginning that they could not handle this. This is yet another proof of BP’s incompetence, stated Ed Markey from the Democratic Party.
At the same time, BP announced that it has spent two billion US dollars so far to address the oil spill issue and has paid 105 million dollars in compensation to the victims of the disaster. The company, in its statement, rejects claims from its partner on the oil rig, Andrako Petroleum, that it was negligent.
A worker from the oil platform, Tyrone Benton, stated that he reported an oil leak in the safety equipment at the facility several weeks before the explosion that caused the environmental disaster. The oil leak was not fixed at that time. BP, which rented the platform, stated that the owners of the facility, Transocean, are responsible for maintenance. They, in turn, claim that the device was successfully tested before the accident. (www.hrt.hr)
