EXCLUSIVE: BP Funds Front Group Claiming Storm Will Clean Up Oil

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

EXCLUSIVE: BP Funds Front Group Claiming Oil Spill Jobs Are Better Than ‘Normal’ Ones, Storm Will Clean Up Oil

Shortly after BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the gulf, the New York Times spoke to Quenton Dokken, the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, about the environmental impact. “The sky is not falling,” Dokken told the paper, adding “it isn’t the end of the Gulf of Mexico.” ProPublica dug into the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, and reported that the Times had failed to disclose that Dokken and his group are funded by a consortium of oil companies with business in the gulf, including companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig, Transocean and Anadarko. Today, the Times reported that the Foundation has been downplaying effects of the spill, possibly because of its funding from oil companies.

ThinkProgress has obtained more documents and evidence that the Gulf of Mexico Foundation has operated as a front for the oil companies involved in the spill. In addition to Transocean and Anadarko, this 2008 “Guardians of the Gulf” award ceremony hosted by the Foundation shows that BP is also a “CEO council member” of the nonprofit. View a screenshot here:


Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/18/bp-gulf-foundation/

[rzemanfl]

1. These people were called out as industry whores way back

when the bullshit we were being fed was 1,000 barrels a day.

[Lugnut]

2. K&R n/t

[Endangered Specie]

3. Jeez, do these people even HAVE a PR department?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Maybe we can seed the hurricanes with some good strong soap!

:eyes:

[SILVER__FOX52]

5. Conservatives and Corporatons love the

False Flags opps. Wacko Fucks.

[SpiralHawk]

11. "We aplologize." - Joe the Barton & RepubliCorporate Cronies (R)

"We are, um, sooooo sorry that you found out about how phony our PR bullshit is."

- Joe the Barton & RepubliCorporate Cronies (R)

[DesertFlower]

6. with BP it's all about profits.

http://www.yamsite.info/bparco.htm

[Grinchie]

7. A cop once told me that it wasn't against the law to lie...

Well, there you have it. It's not, so what incentive is there to tell the truth, when whistleblowers get traumatised/?

Will the merchant with a crushing mortgage offer the advice that the competitors product is better than his? Fuhget about it..

This is too easy to figure out, and frankly it worries me that the richest compainies in the world are so lackadaisacal about their Shills.

It's almost like they are saying, "We know the jig is up, but we are saving every penny for early retirement to spend time with the Wife and Kids."

[Overseas]

8. This proves it-- BP are Beyond Pathological liars. //nt

[Divine Discontent]

9. and all about the Best Profit they can make - they are not 'human', they're a company & that's why

companies should have no say in elections.

[Overseas]

13. I agree and hope we can reclaim our democracy.

One or two percent of BP's quarterly profits is more than the total spending of President Obama and John McCain on the 2008 campaign, I hear.



http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/

[liberation]

10. Only a sociopath could come up with such an argument...

... can we still refer these pieces of sh*t as 'people' given that they most definitively do not belong to the same human species as the rest of us?


Who the f*ck just comes up with sh*t like this? Seriously, you have to either be a deeply damaged individual, or be purely evil, or simply lack any sense of decency and empathy... to come up with machinations like the ones described in the OP.

[Romis]

12. Oil Spill is part of the New World Order plan.

http://www.henrymakow.com/the_gulf_gusher_nwo_depopulati.html
...and it'll get worse.

[Divine Discontent]

14. kick