{"id":1064,"date":"2010-07-26T21:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T21:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2010-07-26T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T21:43:24","slug":"bp-plugs-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"BP Plugs Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen it there is a great piece on <em>The Russian Photos Blog <\/em>today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeremynicholl.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/bp-plugs-leak-photoshops-entire-gulf-coast\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to BP Plugs Leak, Photoshops Entire Gulf Coast\">BP Plugs Leak, Photoshops Entire Gulf Coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course much of the anti-BP US hysteria is no more than an attempt to deflect attention from the US government&#8217;s responsibility for encouraging unsafe oil exploration in the gulf and elsewhere, which has backfired spectacularly, exposing the almost total lack of proper regulation of the oil companies activities.<\/p>\n<p>And it would be hard to find anyone with any understanding of the matter who has any sympathy for the attacks on BP and the Scottish government over the release of the the Libyan who was convicted on very doubtful evidence of planting the bomb on an airline. Perhaps the remaining documents that the US government and the UK government will not allow the Scots to release could make their way to Wiki-leaks and might then help convince those US politicians that there is no case for the Scots to answer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/04\/10\/20100410-d0486.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" height=\"298\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/04\/apr.htm#tarsands\" target=\"_blank\"><small>Party at the Pumps<\/small><\/a><small> exposed BP&#8217;s exploitation of Canadian Tar Sands<\/small><\/p>\n<p>BP of course do have plenty of things to answer for, not least their intention to exploit the Alberta tar sands<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/06\/02\/20100602-d0234.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" height=\"298\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Picket at BP in solidarity with <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/06\/jun.htm#colombian\" target=\"_blank\">Colombian Oil Workers<\/a><\/small><br \/>\nand their lack of care and respect for the dignity of their workers in Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not already seen it there is a great piece on The Russian Photos Blog today, BP Plugs Leak, Photoshops Entire Gulf Coast. Of course much of the anti-BP US hysteria is no more than an attempt to deflect attention from the US government&#8217;s responsibility for encouraging unsafe oil exploration in the gulf and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BP Plugs Leak<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}