BP found itself in another sticky situation today when Greenpeace gate-crashed the World National Oil Companies Congress in London, just as the company’s speaker was making his address.
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“Because BP is incapable of telling you the truth, I’m going to tell you what you need to know,” Greenpeace’s Emma Gibson told the audience at the Grange St Paul’s hotel in The City.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we need to speed up progress and make a push to end the oil age. That means stopping the push for dangerous projects to pump out hard-to-reach oil like deepwater drilling.”
“Deepwater drilling risks disasters like the Gulf spill,” added Gibson in a reference to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico where a BP-controlled oil pipe continues to leak millions of barrels of the black stuff.
BP speaker and company chief of staff Steve Westwell was a stand-in for under-fire CEO Tony Hayward.
“He is genuinely sorry he couldn’t be here, especially with so many friends in the conference, but his schedule is under incredible pressure at the moment,” said Westwell.
