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Family of BP boss under police protection: report
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LONDON (Reuters) - BP boss Tony Hayward and his family are under police protection after receiving threats and hate mail from campaigners over the worst oil spill in U.S. history, London's Evening Standard newspaper reported.
The report cited police sources in Kent, the English county where Hayward and his wife live, saying there was an "ongoing operation" to protect the BP chief executive, his wife and their two children.
Kent Police were not available for comment when contacted by Reuters.
BP has been attempting to stop oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico since an explosion on April 20 ruptured a well, causing an environmental disaster.
The oil giant said on Tuesday its latest attempt to stop the leak, a seabed containment cap to siphon off oil, recorded its highest oil capture rate on Monday.
(Reporting by Sarah Young, editing by Will Waterman)
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It’s very sad that the family of Tony have to fear for their lives. BP are a corporation that extract materials that consumers purchase.
I wonder if the author of the previous comment used oil today?
1AmercianGuy, I strongly suggest you google ‘Union Carbide Bhopal’.
When you and the rest of the redneckwonderland have finished beating up individuals of a corporation who is part of an industry that has allowed you to exist to this day, have a peek in your own backyard. Goldman Sachs are just the more recent example of the US Corporatocracy.
I used to think Obama was a breath of fresh air but he has proven himself to be just another one of hot air. He is no more fit to ‘lead the free world’ than his predecessor.
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