It’s been a year since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Who better than Jimmy Buffett to remind us that a lot of lives (human and otherwise) are still being impacted. From his 2010 Gulf Coast Benefit concert:
“It was bound to happen, where greed and crude appear….” – Jimmy Buffett
It’s still impossible for me to imagine the level of corporate disconnectedness responsible for the perfect public relations storm earlier this month when Transocean (the Deepwater Horizon part of BP) awarded a number of corporate executives huge bonuses based on 2010′s “safety statistics.” In reaction to the resultant PR nightmare, the executives subsequently donated (some of) the bonus proceeds to the families of the 11 workers who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Nice gesture. Too late. Business as usual.
