Bob Dudley apologized for the oil spill on Tuesday.
Bob Dudley apologized for the oil spill by saying “BP is sorry. BP gets it,” adding, “We need to earn back your trust, along with that of state and federal leaders and the trust of Gulf Coast residents and customers…we are determined we will once again restore that trust, and I realize this requires action, not words.”
When Bob Dudley apologized for the oil spill, he made this apology at the CERA gathering, speaking to a collection of industry bigwigs in the corporate oil and gas community.
“Actions, not words,” he said.
In light of that statement, it should also be known that in the past couple of weeks Bob Dudley and BP have reneged on promised assistance for the restoration of the oyster beds in Louisiana, they have low-balled requests by Gulf Coast states for money to help boost tourism, they have made no statements on the increasing sicknesses across the Gulf Coast from exposure to toxic fumes and they have also complained that the meager payments to claimants from Ken Feinberg and the GCCF are too high.
“Actions, not words…”
Perhaps more important than a mea culpa at a conference for industry insiders, Bob Dudley should apologize for the oil spill in each and every affected home in Grand Isle, Lousiana, in the fishing communities of Plaquemines Parish, in Gulfport, in the bayou, all across Alabama and Florida and in every other affected community along the Gulf Coast.
I understand it could be argued that this kind of demand is unreasonable, unrealistic and excessive…maybe, but so was the flood of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the dumping of Corexit dispersants and the loss of life on the Deepwater Horizon.
Making things right is not a generic PR apology to your buddies at an oil industry conference. Sorry Bob, that’s just one more half-assed stunt with no real accountability.
Have a nice day.
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My friend that got the “No Loss” letter for his business was supposed to have an appt. with a GCCF accountant this week, but they did not call him to schedule as they said they would. So he went to the local GCCF office to show them that the GCCF made up figures and did not use the info that he provided in his documentation. Of course, no supervisor was there to help him and the staff told him nothing was wrong with the calculations.
He told them what is wrong is the figures they used to calculate, they are not his figures. He told them if he took the liberty, as the GCCF did, to just make up numbers he would be accused of fraud. As expected, nothing is resolved and he has not been advised as to what steps are to be taken to get this fixed.
BTW, they processed 0 business interims yesterday and 63 individual interims. You would think they could fudge figures faster than that.
Absolutely ridiculous…and unfortunately, par usual. I’ve said ti before and I’ll say it again…1. If I did my job like this, I would be fired, and 2. The massive fraud occurring in the Gulf Coast has less to do with the claimants and mroe to do with the GCCF, which appears designed to frustrate people into submission. I’ve received correspondence from several attesting to this very fact.
Thanks for the update…
-Drake