Tony Hayward.
Not only did BP cause the biggest environmental disaster in history, but then this little shit who's supposedly in charge of BP has the temerity to complain, "I'd like my life back."

I'm sure that the Gulf of Mexico fishermen would like to return to theirs as well, you overpaid privileged pasty-faced inbred twat.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 15:17, 27 replies)

You reap what you sow
The US is gasoline obsessed, is the prime World polluter, has stuck two fingers up to the rest of the world regarding it's ongoing devastating effect upon the environment (Kyoto ring a bell), lacked the requisite regulation for safe offshore deepwater drilling for convenience sake and now you turn around with the boo-hoo's. Nobody cares.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 15:31, closed)

I'd be interested in your comments on China when commenting on "the prime World polluter".

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:11, closed)

Well they've only just been taken over by China, so the Chinese have a way to go before they've caused as much damage
Not that either party gives a fuck
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:31, closed)

It depends on criterion used
If it is per capita pollution then the usa carry all before us, but if you want to look at total effort in the raping of the planet then they are beaten in to second by China.
(mersault, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:40, closed)

Quite.
Exactly where, Loon, did you think all that lovely oil would have ended up anyway? Pumped safely back into caverns under the sea? Or burnt in cars, turned into plastic and thrown into landfill, made into paint? ALL oil ends up polluting the world around us. Personally I think it's great that so much of it got splurged out onto the doorstep of its no.1 consumer rather than being burnt in their big V8 pickups, blowing into the trade winds and fucking up the quality of life for the rest of the world. And please try and remember how Union Carbide behaved after Bhopal, will you? God.
(Whizzer, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 15:50, closed)

And Britain is blameless on that one, eh?
I see. Of course. It was us Americans who started the whole thing.

*poke poke*
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:06, closed)

"biggest environmental disaster in history,"
I'm sure there's some families around Bopal who may have a differing view on that one, fella.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 15:51, closed)

There was a few dinosaurs around a while back that might have complained and all

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 15:55, closed)

That was the septics fault as well, they needed them dead to make all the oil. Wake up sheeple!

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:07, closed)

Well if Tony Hayward wants his life back
he'd better apologise for mass extinction pretty fucking sharpish.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:13, closed)

Oxygen - the great killer!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_catastrophe
(speedevil, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:11, closed)

I'm still waiting for that cunt to apologise, too

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:23, closed)

This one isn't done yet.
It's not getting the headlines anymore, but there are still repercussions being felt. Do a bit of Googling around yourself.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:11, closed)

indeed
BP will clean up in the gulf. Bhopal is still contaminated, will it be cleaned up? Will it fuck.
(mersault, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:47, closed)

The "life back" comment never struck me as being too bad.
I mean - it's not like there was a lot more he could personally do to stem the flow.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:07, closed)

He was being open and honest rather than speaking via 28 image consultants and laywers

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:08, closed)

It was just a bit ill-advised in terms of timing.
Or perhaps "politically insensitive" might be a better term for it. Compared to the people who were seeing their incomes pretty thoroughly wiped out by the spill, his problems were almost trivial. He's not dependent on fishing for his living, or on running a seaside resort. No matter what, he's already got enough money to last his lifetime. He's not going to face foreclosure and bankruptcy. To those who are, it's a bit of a slap, ya know?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:35, closed)

incomes wiped out?
Don't you mean - replaced by a fucking big payout?
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 20:24, closed)

spoken like a true
ignoramus
(Scary Ghost, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:21, closed)

Click on the button.
www.losinghorns.com/assets/swf/losingHorns.swf
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:38, closed)

wasn't tony hayward alan partridge's boss at the bbc?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:28, closed)

SMELL MY CHEESE YOU MOTHER

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:38, closed)

Yeah - 'Haircut 100' were fucking shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:44, closed)

Not really BP's fault anyway
The rig was operated by Transocean, an American firm. BP give contractors the job of pumping out the oil, they don't do it all themselves.

The rig in question was only recently sold to Transocean. At the sale, the previous owners said "That valve (that caused the disaster) is knackered, we sell it you on condition it is repaired. You might get another drilling from it, but we offer no garauntee."

5 drillings later (5!) it went up.
( Greenbat, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:58, closed)

^ never mind villain of the year, I know who'd win kneejerk fuckwit . . .
BP? That would be the commercial entity that until not that long ago was called BP Amoco - you know, Amoco. Now, where are they from? BP America were the Operator. Halliburton (oops, American again) and Transocean (recently moved HQ and registration overseas but, yep, you guessed it, American again) were the main contractors. Cameron, manufacturer of the downhole valves and blow-out protectors. American. Again. You'll find that there is culpability across the whole sphere of operations in the GOM. Not according to Obama though. That'll all be down to 'British Petroleum' . . .

This might be the largest enviromental disaster in the US but certainly not in world history. Bhopal anyone?

GOM dead zone (pesticides?), coal slurries, asbestos, 3 Mile Island, Exxon Valdez, PCB poisoning, lead poisoning. What a great record the US has at home, never mind overseas.

When the US extradites the Union Carbide executives who were airlifted out of India the day after Bhopal, we'll send you Tony Hayward. Okay?
(SalRossi Laughter the best medicine? Nurse, penicillin....., Thu 23 Dec 2010, 17:18, closed)

I rather like the fact that BP used to be the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Bloody hell, imagine what kind of bollocks would be spouting forth from the right then.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 19:26, closed)

bollocks
"the biggest environmental disaster in history"

it may have been the environmental disaster which had the most coverage in the US press but it caused very few deaths and very little long term harm to the environment in comparison to many other disasters.
(imallamallama looking forward to llamageddon on, Sat 25 Dec 2010, 1:31, closed)