Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

BP’s been punished enough – but not because Americans hate the Brits

Plus: Remembering Sir Jasper Hollom

Closed beaches due to the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, 2011 [Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images] 
issue 13 September 2014

I should declare two connections before I start offering opinions about the latest US judgment against BP relating to the ‘Macondo’ disaster — the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and subsequent spillage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The first is that I’m occasionally invited to interview BP executives for its in-house magazine.

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