BP chairman says company cares about 'small people'
AFP
Wed Jun 16, 3:04 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Wednesday the British energy giant cared about the fate of the "small people" hit by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, vowing to look after all affected.
Emerging from White House talks with President Barack Obama, Svanberg said the British energy giant had "always met our obligations and responsibilities."
"We have made clear from the first moment of this tragedy that we will live up to all our legitimate responsibilities," Svanberg said, adding all claims for compensation would be met "swiftly and fairly."
"We will look after the people affected, and we will repair the damage to this region, the environmental damage to this region and to the economy," he added.
Obama said he had urged the BP bosses to remember when they were meeting in the boardroom to "keep in mind those individuals, that they are desperate, may lose business that have been in their families for two or three generations."
Svanberg agreed, saying: "We care about the small people."
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Ok that did it for me and Obama. He allowed this guy to get away with saying this.
He should have grabbed that guy by the tie and explained to him here in the USA we don't have small people. Maybe you and the Queen do but here we are equal. Then he should have given him the bums rush out the door.
What in the world is wrong with our President?
Why are these people even setting foot in our country?
Why aren't they doing prison time for the people they murdered on that drilling rig?
Why aren't they doing prison time for the rare birds and animals they have killed?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100616/pl_afp/usoilpollutionenvironmentbpchairman_20100616190452
