Showing posts with label controversy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label controversy. Show all posts

Saturday, June 12, 2010

BP and the great leak.

My perspective on the BP oil leak is shared by few other people as mentioned below : 

The multibillion-dollar, multinational company found support for its efforts. In New York, that support came from billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"The guy that runs BP didn't exactly go down there and blow up the well," he told a radio program. "And what's more, if you want them to fix it and they are the ones with the expertise, I think I might wait to assign blame until we get it fixed."

In London, England, a Downing Street spokesman said Prime Minister David Cameron spoke Friday with BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg.

"The prime minister explained that he was frustrated and concerned about the environmental damage caused by the leak, but made clear his view that BP is an economically important company in the UK, US and other countries," the spokesman said in a news release.

"He said that it is in everyone's interests that BP continues to be a financially strong and stable company."

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg appealed for a reduction in the vitriol that has gripped many observers. "I don't, frankly, think we're going to reach a solution stopping the release of oil into the Gulf any quicker by allowing this to spiral into a tit-for-tat political, diplomatic spat," he said.

I have no idea – how is a protest going to stop the leak any faster?? This is because I believe BP is already doing all it can to stop the leak, unlike ofcourse the shameless Union Carbide India ltd – which got away with a slap on the wrist.

While all this is happening, Obama is delivering populist dialogues. Yes – dialogues.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Rebuttal from Shashi Tharoor


Shashi Tharoor's Rebuttal on the controversy here:

I believe it is our duty, to counter media everytime they go for such cheap marketing to increase readership.I am disgusted with TOI right now.

The damage would have been done by now. Media should be sued for every such mis-information they sell. I mean - atleast what they put inside the quotes should be correct!! But then, the courts.. Ha!

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