Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Oil spill ‘will shape how US thinks about environment’

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Barack Obama:

In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come

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What we can predict is that the availability of fossil fuel is going to be diminishing; that it's going to get more expensive to recover; that there are going to be environmental costs that our children… our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren are going to have to bear.

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Is this BP’s last option to stop the spill?

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Alex Thomson:

They have 16 men out there experienced in capping the Kuwait wellheads which Saddam’s troops blew up.

I saw what Saddam did in Kuwait and I saw what BP did in the Gulf – the Kuwaiti oil fires were child’s play on every level of comparison. Surface as opposed to extreme depth. In air as opposed to water. Ignited oil as opposed to gushing liquid crude into pristine deep ocean.

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So you have to ask – who on earth are BP to trust when it comes to talking about the terrible mess they have made? Precisely the question they really are asking on Capitol Hill, right now.

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