"As British commentators have rushed to point out, we did not burn US executives in effigy after Occidental's Piper Alpha rig exploded, killing 167 men, in 1988. And Union Carbide's shamefully evasive performance before, during and since the Bhopal disaster in 1984 was highlighted in an Indian court again only last week. That killed 3,000 people directly, and many more since." (Michael White)

One 'BarlieChrooker' comments -
"Another big company that caused lots of collateral damage recently is Lehman Brothers, their greed-fueled implosion has cost Britain billions.
Therefore, BP should compensate the U.S. govt. once the U.S govt. has compensated the UK for Lehman's."