BP has paid about half of the 35,000 claims submitted by Gulf residents and companies for income lost because of the spill, Darryl Willis, vice president of resources at BP America, said yesterday on a conference call. BP is awaiting documentation before it can pay the remaining claims, he said. Willis said the company’s spending on claims through June may top $84 million.
I don't know whether BP's engineering CAUSED the spill.
But since the date of the explosion, this company's behavior has been nothing short of exemplary. In the course of 45 days, not only have they made multiple attempts, finally a successful one, at stopping the spill, they have spent well more than a billion dollars, created an infrastructure for filing and payment of massive numbers of claims (with no established policy for documentation, etc.), and dealt with an incompetent US government response in the process.
Everyone is bashing BP, but I cannot imagine a company doing a better job under these circumstances. |
