Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says oil spill puts survival of BP at stake

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Source: The Times Online

As a high-stakes operation to shut off a blown-out oil well unfolded on the seabed and a 130-mile wide slick menaced the coastline of four US states, a top US official was warning that the survival of BP as a company was under threat.

Ken Salazar, the US Interior Secretary, accused the oil giant and its partners in the Deepwater Horizon rig of “major mistakes”, adding that ’s] life is very much on the line here”.

A six-member board made up of personnel from the US Coast Guard and the Minerals Management Service, which regulates the oil industry, will begin hearing evidence next week on the April 20 disaster in which 11 workers were killed when pressure surged up a drill pipe and exploded the rig.

“From my own observations, there were some very major mistakes made by the companies that were involved,” said Mr Salazar. “Are they doing everything that they can possibly do? I hope they are.”

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7120158.ece

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The Sarah Palin bit at the end is just shocking. Does she really think this happened because BP are "foreign"?


That's right, Sarah. No US oil company has ever screwed up or polluted one bit.