Before the congressional committee, the CEO of BP, Tony Hayward refused to answer on more than 60 occasions which made the representatives accuse him of stonewalling the procedure. Soon after, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg announced that the CEO would no longer be managing the response to the oil spill. Meanwhile, President Obama stressed BP […]

The nuclear option is, possibly, an expedient road to stop the spill. MERLIN FLOWER | 2010/06/15 The odds are stacked against: potential radioactivity, more pores, more spills and a whole array of add-ons. Put that way, it sure doesn’t seem to come from a sapient mind, the provocative option of a nuclear explosion to contain […]

The toxic sludge killing oceanic wildlife by the thousand will soon be hovered inland by hurricanes, threatening animals and humans alike. MERLIN FLOWER | 2010/06/07 Forty long days, and the saga of the Gulf oil spill continues unabated. The efforts to contain the spill seem doltish in multi levels, more confounded as weeks march by, […]