Locals react to BP "spreading blame"

BALDWIN COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) - In a new report, BP is spreading blame for the explosion that led up to the blown-out well in the Gulf.

SHIFTING BLAME

In the 193-page report BP describes the incident as an accident that arose from a complex series of mechanical failures, human judgments, and engineering design. This report that is sure to fire passions along the Gulf Coast.

In an internal report posted on their website over the cause of the Deepwater Horizon incident, BP says “No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy. Rather, a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the explosion and fire which killed 11 people and caused widespread pollution in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.”

INCENSED

“It’s a company with no character as far as I’m concerned.”

Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon is not surprised that BP is trying to shift blame.

“They can say there’s no single failure, but the single failure was the lack of leadership and management on BP's part because every one of those contractors in every sequence from the top down was under their control, it was their well, “ Kennon said.

BP's apparent shifting of blame doesn’t sit well with most people. Folks, like Eric Deangles, say BP should take ownership of the problems it caused.

“It was their well and they were the ones out there making money off the well bringing all the oil in and they should be responsible for it,” Deangles said.

HELD ACCOUNTABLE

Kennon says BP hasn’t lived up to their promises since day one and as the national spotlight has moved, the Gulf Coast is being forgotten.

“The media is going to have to shed light on this fraud that they’re perpetrating to the American people that they’re doing what they said they were going to do… they’re not doing what they said they were going to do,” Kennon said. “If I was them, I’d be tucking my tail and running as far as I could. I’d be so embarrassed to be making excuses or trying to shift the blame on anybody.”

INTERNAL REPORT

The incident report was based on a four month investigation headed by BP's director of safety and operations, Mark Bly.