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After Tony’s abysmal performance yesterday before the House Subcommittee on investigations, is anyone surprised that BP’s Chairman just announced Tony "I want my life back" Hayward may get his wish?
Via Reuters (and on CNN):
CEO Tony Hayward will hand over daily oversight of the oil giant’s response to the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Sky TV reported on Friday, citing an interview with BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg. (Reporting by Kristin Roberts, Editing by Stacey Joyce)
Update: Link to SkyNews interview with BP Chairman.
Update 2: per CNN, BP says it was already done.
BP spokesman Andrew Gowers tells CNN that Svanberg was just reflecting a June 4 announcement about BP Managing Director Bob Dudley taking over the long-term disaster response. He said Hayward’s current role has not changed.
May they should watch this again:
So long, Tony, and thanks for all the [dead] fish . . . and turtles, whales, shrimp, crab, oysters, wetlands, . . .
More:
CNN has this morning’s video from Admiral Allen
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Super-duper-pooper-scooper can go back to it’s vacation in Thailand which was sooo rudely interrupted…
Bob Dudley, who has been as much of a liar as Hayward, will be taking over.
I suspect Bob will not have been involved in any of those decision-making processes either.
I particularly liked this part, from a Sky news interview:
I can hardly wait.
I hope he enjoys the life he is getting back…Nice lesson: Be careful what you wish for. He’s had quite a run to be the BP face out there….are they just catching on?
I always feel so much better when a guy with a “Sir” in front of his name takes charge. Things will no doubt improve greatly. s/
From the cadence of Hayward’s voice during questioning, I suspect that a burgeoning pop music career might be in the offing.
;>)
Thank you. *g*
I was thinking he’s the British version of Droopy Dog.
He’s so tall, too.
Leaving BP to live the good life on the French Riviera. Ain’t life sweet?
Hayward deserves life … behind bars !
Hayward left all he need to know about congressional hearings by watching Bush’s people in front of congress.
There are now three responses to all questions:
- I don’t recall
- I was not part of the decision chain
- I’m very sympathetic to those who have suffered
No more preparation required.
Oh, who actually gave BP the license to drill in the Gulf, who is creating the demand for the product, and who is addicted to Oil? Tony Hayward? BP?
And who’s leading the program is the US to remove the addiction to Oil? Hello! Anyone?
We can throw all the Oil Executives in Jail, or even just kill them outright, O’bama has that power, or order a predator attack on BP’s headquarters (1 Ropemaker St, London EC1). Will that address the problem we all have?
✌ ✌ nice…db nice..☺ ☺
See, the free market works! /s
One of a kind, that Mr. Cook.
(And original Bedazzled is hi-larious, and rather smart.)
Tony will run for Congress on the Tea Party ticket in the near future.
Or the flee market, in this instance.
Yet another film not requiring and yet receiving a remake.
As to Mr. Hayward, while he can no doubt retire comfortably to ‘spend time with his loved ones’ as the youth might say, there are always others to take his place and perform the exact identical function as he – nothing more ‘cookie cutter’ than a company man. Let’s see what the next CEO can not recall in these matters – Surely, it will be an even more comprehensive list as the months pass along with the oil in the ocean currents.
;>)
Good one, rf.
bp is on probation for killing workers and hundreds of violations. Then they kill 11 more and destroyed the Gulf Coast. If it were you or me, we would be locked up. The gop bow down and apologize to these criminals.
We should demand bp to be arrested like the “small people” and the gop should start helping the victims and not the criminals.
But but but, you can’t fire the CEO. He’s the only one who knows how to get the corp out of the mess he got it into. That logic is so irrefutable, I’m wondering why no one thought about it before Hank Paulson & his cabal. Give Hayward a big bonus; he needs the incentive to put his shoulder to the wheel for the job ahead.
Arise, Sir Loin of Beef
Liver & loin, as the butcher said.
This isn’t a result of Hayward’s congressional tap dancing. It’s been in the works for some time:
They’re spinning off a US company to take operational responsibility, and more importantly the financial responsibility, for their catastrophic failure in the Gulf.
I’ve always heard that English cuisine is truly offal.
The reference to H2G2 doesn’t stand close scrutiny:
Alas, the dolphins who stay behind are in grave jeopardy.
OK, I surrender.
When Morry Adelman said, back in the 1970s, that the world was awash in a sea of oil, I think he didn’t have this in mind.
Indeed, BP has shot America in the face…But it’s only right that America should apologize so that we can put this inconvenient unpleasantness behind us and move forward toward a golden horizon of profit. Hayward should be lauded for his staunch refusal to entertain such impertinence from small people.
;>)
I wonder how long before the oil reaches the Pacific shores of farthest South America — Uruguay mainly — where American elites have their worst-possible-outcome survival estates? Tony done peed in their pool good, wouldn’t expect him to popular on the dinner circuit down there.. nor anywhere for that matter.
Not one word spoken by any person in authority (at BP or the government) has proven true. I have a growing suspicion the assertion that relief wells when (or perhaps IF) completed will finally allow them to plug the leak will also turn out to be false and that this thing is destined to gush oil indefinitely.
I sincerely hope I’m wrong.
I so agree…I think they have no idea if it will work, plus less how much oil may be involved. They just keep talking about August.
Don’t Panic
Those are meant to be large, reassuring letters.
Does Tony know where his towel is?
After the first week I thought that they will never stop the “spill.”
I still don’t think so and I hope I’m wrong.
That is my fear, that talking about relief wells is merely a ploy to siphon off a fraction of the public outrage until like the junk shot it fails.
plenty of anecdotal evidence that well casing is gone – if that is the case, all the relief wells in the world wont matter -
Chevron: Relief Wells ?!?. . . We don’t need no stinkin’ Relief Wells !
Yep, horrible as it is, we’ve only seen the beginning.
Slight geography correction in order. Uruguay borders the South Atlantic, not the Pacific.
And fortunately for the vast majority of South America, they will not be hit by the spill, thanks to the Gulf Stream. However, just saw the other day that based on the new estimates of daily spill volume, the far reaches of the spill will be picked up from the Gulf current by first the Atlantic current and then the Northern current and will eventually hit the shores of Iceland and Norway. (Before they get hit, Ireland and Britain will get their share.)
Alas, no. I suspect he is neither hoopy nor a frood.
Thanks for that reminder, beth.
I’m sure Tony the weasel will be thoughtfully re-assigned. He knows too much to be, “let go.”
Thanks for the ocean correction… d’oh!
I would have thought eventually the oil would get disseminated globally, whether in huge globs or in single molecules. And that the projections just haven’t been made out that far in time yet.
Smoo-oo-oob!
This is indeed unfortunate, but on the other hand if any walruses had been at risk BP had a plan and would have jumped right on saving those.
Isn’t Dudley the guy who was kicked out of Russia a while back? I am trying pretty hard to remember where I read that. But, I’m pretty sure if he is too awful for Russia, he might fit in just right over here.
A Scorsese-ish scene outside the House Subcommittee hearing room:
Jimmy Conway [to Tony Hayward]: Congratulations. [Jimmy slips a folded $100 bill into Tony’s shirt pocket] A graduation present.
Tony Hayward: Why? I got pinched.
Jimmy Conway: Everyone does. You did it right. You told them nothing.
Tony Hayward: I thought you’d be mad.
Jimmy Conway: I’m not mad — I’m proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man, and learned the two greatest things in life — look at me — Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
Paulie Cicero [with open arms]: Here he is! You broke your cherry!
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beautiful
beautiful
As much as BP is responsible for the Spill.
We might take note that it was the Government who didn’t make them clean it up, let them spray the dispersants, and let the oil spread out all over the Gulf.
So it is our Government who killed the fish, oiled the birds, let the oil come ashore, and has let BP be incharge of how to keep it from the shore, Ha Ha, and clean it up after they let it come to shore.
If Our Coast Guard can’t Guard our Coast What the F#%k good are they. Our MMS couldn’t oversee the oil companies. Our Government can’t even act when we need them to see BP is doing a good job.
All our top scientists and engineers can’t figure out a way to plug that well, what the F#%K would they be worth if we an astroid heading towards us, aliens were attacking or some really big problem came around, we already know our Military can’t protect us, and if we were attacked by some other Country, we couldn’t get them back from the middle east before we were taken over.
Gee! When Sadam blew up all those wells in Kuiat. We as well as the world were their to cap the wells and clean up the mess. Yet we can’t see we are less important than Kuiat to our Government.
Not entirely off topic:
The most complete disclosure of the ‘contractors’ working on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster I’ve seen yet- here:” BP’s Secret Army of Oil Disaster Contractors”
The report starts with:
One detail from the link:
Vessels of opportunity? Whose opportunity?
“The program is managed by Parsons Corporation, a private engineering and project management company based in Pasadena, CA.”