Obama takes tougher line on oil spill

[babsbunny]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-obama

Obama administration directed more fire against BP, ordering it to provide daily updates on its efforts to contain the spill

The Obama administration directed more fire against BP last night, ordering it to provide daily updates on its efforts to contain the spill and to stop the use of a toxic chemical dispersant to break up the slick.

The White House said it expected the oil company to post daily updates on its website. "We think that is what the company owes, again, both us and the American people, as we work through our response and as the public has questions about their operations," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

The toughening line on BP comes as the Obama administration has faced heavy criticism for downplaying the scale of the disaster, despite evidence the spill could be caught up in currents that would drag it along the Atlantic coast. Last night it was reported that oil had washed into the marshes at the mouth of the Mississippi, coating the grasses of Louisiana's wetlands, home to rare birds, mammals and a rich variety of marine life.

[charlesg]

1. Put them in jail and seize their assets

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Fire them out of a cannon into the sun.

Beat their children and set their wives on fire.

[rzemanfl]

5. Yesterday I was wishing for Vlad the Impaler-and here you are-

it's a miracle.

[Robbien]

2. 90,000 barrels spewing for 30 long dirty days and NOW someone's getting around to

perhaps thinking about nudging BP to stop the lies?

[KT2000]

4. Updates on a website

is not tough enough.

If we have ever sedn sociopathic behavior from a corporation - this is it.
Mental hospitals and jail for them all.

[katandmoon]

6. And BP is SO SCARED!!!!!