Politics

BP's Tony Hayward: Clueless or Careless?

By Monica Chang

BP CEO Tony Hayward has gone from being a virtual unknown to the person made infamous by the Deepwater Horizon disaster that has led to 3.7 million gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf daily for over a month. Ever since the incident, Hayward has provided the public with a goldmine of quotes and misleading information. Possibly the most famous instance of poor propriety was when Hayward, while apologizing to the people of Louisiana, told them "I would like my life back", a comment that sounded particularly insensitive after the Gulf catastrophe claimed 11 lives in the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Further casualties now include nearly 500 birds, 227 turtles, and 27 mammals, including dolphins. Hayward's poorly-conceived statements do not stop there; he also famously said, "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."

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Full post as published by PR Watch on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).