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Outgoing BP chief executive Tony Hayward tells MPs safety is the oil giant’s “number one” priority, as he puts the company’s case to be allowed to drill for oil in UK waters, as Tom Clarke reports.
BP blames “failures” for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion and subsequent major oil spill. Science correspondent Tom Clarke says the report is BP’s “case for the defence”.
As BP prepares to publish a report into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion one marine expert tells Channel 4 News it was a major environmental incident but not a catastrophe.
As costs of the BP oil spill clean-up surpass a billion dollars, Channel 4 News runs through the timeline of events that led to the biggest oil slick in US history.
Eleven workers killed, nearly five million barrels of oil in the sea, a 20 billion dollar fund to cover the damage – the cost of the Deepwater Horizon disaster goes beyond pounds or dollars.
As the BP oil leak crisis appears to be ending in the Gulf of Mexico, marine conservation biologist Professor Rick Steiner, writing for Channel 4 News, asks why did it take so long?
How does an ex-spy link BP, Libya and Lockerbie bomber? Who Knows Who investigates the key players at the heart of a growing transatlantic rift – from deals in the desert to the boardroom, via MI6.
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron has just told PBS radio in Washington that the Megrahi release was “not a BP decision” but “the decision of British ministers” (by which he means Scottish ministers). He has revisited his initial decision to turn down a late request from four US senators to meet up and discuss the Lockerbie bomber’s release…
Jon Snow
What might otherwise be regarded as an incredible feat of engineering has been achieved a mile under the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico.
As the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico crosses the two month mark, veteran marine biologist Professor Rick Steiner writes for Channel 4 News counting the cost to the environment.
Marine biologist Professor Rick Steiner tells Channel 4 News BP must establish another $20bn fund – to compensate for the environmental damage of the Gulf oil spill – as BP’s cap suffers a setback.
Jon Snow
Is Union Carbide’s horrific environmental disaster of 1984 America’s ‘BP’? Yesterday’s minimal sentences passed down on eight former Carbide employees, did not include the then Chief Executive Warren Anderson. No one has ever acted upon the arrest warrant that was issued for his arrest. No one until yesterday was ever brought to book. America and…
Exxon Valdez disaster veteran marine biologist Professor Rick Steiner warns that the BP oil spill environmental damage will be enormous for years to come.
Americans watching the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are all suffering the unfamiliar sensation that there is nothing they can do to prevent imminent environmental catastrophe.
Alex Thomson blogs on BPs worst case option that they’re facing now.