BP says it's not responsible for paying to reseed oyster beds

[The Straight Story]

BP says it's not responsible for paying to reseed oyster beds

State officials' decision to turn on a number of freshwater diversions full blast to block oil from entering coastal wetlands on both sides of the Mississippi River -- a strategy that decimated private and public oyster beds -- was not approved by the Unified Command overseeing the response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a senior BP official said Friday.

"Having been a part of this response since the beginning, I can tell you categorically that the Coast Guard indicated that it was not necessary and was not seen as a viable response technique," Mike Utsler, chief operating officer of BP's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, said Friday. "As a Unified Command, we saw this as a not-needed exercise, and the state still chose to pursue that course of action."

Utsler said that's one reason why BP has so far refused to pay to restore oyster beds with cultch, the shell material on which oyster eggs attach and grow in the spring and fall.

A second reason, Utsler said, is research released this week by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists that he said showed that oysters process and expel oil contaminants so quickly that they would not have been hurt by the spill.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/04/bp_says_its_not_responsible_fo.html

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Then what are they responsible for?!

:grr:

[PDJane]

2. excuses and protecting their profits.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. And for paying bonuses to their executives, despite everything...

:grr:

11 dead - but execs paid 'safety bonus'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=814135&mesg_id=814135

[jtrockville]

5. Getting THEIR lives back. The hell with those whose lives they destroyed.

[BillyJack]

3. A THIRD reason, is b/c BP just won't do it, b/c it costs $$$

and BP, as does EVERY CORPORATION, has a responsibility to its shareholders. Not its consumers. No. Not its citizens. No.

To its SHAREHOLDERS.

It doesn't matter that BP's shareholders are consumers or citizens. It's PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT, What's the profit (prophet?).

That is ALL that matters. It is the ONLY MEASURE of their (corporations) success.