right. looking out for shareholder profits is compassion.
here's another little bit about compassion capitalist-style or what can happen when the captains of industry exercise their particular type of shareholder-oriented compassion in the context of imperial north-south relations and so without those pesky distorting regulations to direct that compassion impulse in other ways:
Baird: We Don't Hear About Africa's Oil Spills - Newsweek
or this:
Apocalypse Now ... Niger Delta?s oil exploitation tragedy - Herald Scotland | News | World News
or this, for the reference tree at the bottom:
Environmental issues in the Niger Delta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
meanwhile there's some reports that say the well is leaking both near the top and seeping a couple miles away. it's all still nebulous and it's not clear who's saying what quite yet...but if it turns out that these problems are serious, it'll mean that the oil will start heading back into the gulf again and it is meet, apparently, that it be a representative of the federal government and not bp who takes the news cycle hit for announcing it.
or so the interpretations run.
The Oil Drum | BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - White House Press Secretary Gibbs Confirms "Ruptured Oil Well Leaking from Top" and a Seep Two Miles Away (and Open Thread 2)
things are still unfolding.
i hope this turns out to be a false alarm.