BP is aware of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into possible contract-bidding irregularities involving two companies that do business with the company through the Durango Operations Center. |
BP will support any legislation that includes notification and compensation of surface owners, provided that there will be some means to ensure that we get a permit. |
Do natural-gas prices at $7 mean less drilling in La Plata County? The short answer is no. We have plans that look five to seven years down the road. If the price goes up today and down tomorrow, that won't have an impact on what we do here tomorrow. |
Economists have their own tools to judge how far a dollar goes coming in from a tourist, a skier or a rafter. They can find how long it stays in the county. What this study shows is that we are a significant multiplier. |
That car still turns heads. It got a lot of people to listen to a bald-headed old man. |
There's still a lot of work to be done under very trying conditions. |
Those were a couple of things that really caused us the most heartburn. |
We did better than a lot of people expected us to, but we still could have done better. |
We're talking about 3M taking about 10 years now to reach what we believe is an incorrect and flawed conclusion. Let's not start piling new numbers on top of that. Let's just take the next step and start thinking about mitigation. |
We've been able to show time and again that our operations don't affect domestic water wells. |