May 19, 2010
BP CEO TONY HAYWARD talked with SKY NEWS’ Greg Milam at “BP’s crisis control center in Houston” shortly after the pipe was successfully placed in the leak.
Hayward is in need of an immediate reality check.
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[hand transcribed]
HAYWARD:
Over the last 36 hours we have made a lot of progress on the containment on the seabed.We have a piece of technology engineering that we developed, which is now allowing us to produce oil from the leak to the surface.
Talks about the pipe they placed and the whopping 1000 barrels captured by it.
And then this:
I think the environmental impacts of this disaster is liked to have been very, very modest.
It’s imposssible to say and we will mount, as a part of the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment as we go forward. We’re going to do that with some of the science institutions in the US.
But everything we can see, at the moment, suggests that the overall environmental impacts of this will be very, very modest.
I think there is understandable frustration about, you know, the situation and a desire to get it under control. And I think it’s somewhat natural that the administration here wishes to demonstrate that they’re on top of it.
The reality is that the extent of the cooperation that is taking place, between ourselves and all of the federal agencies, I think will be seen as a textbook example of how to do an emergency response.
It is unprecedented.
So is the leak. And the hiding of it for 3 weeks. And the continued lackadaisical response by barry et al.
How much action has taken place after the initial video was released (May 11) as compared to since?
