BP report shifts blame for Gulf of Mexico oil spill to American contractors

David Gardner
Mail Online
September 9, 2010

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BP triggered a further backlash last night as it tried to shift the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

In a report released yesterday into the cause of the spill, the beleaguered British oil giant claims two other multinational companies were largely at fault.

The 193-page internal investigation plays down BP’s culpability for America’s worst ever oil leak, which took 87 days to plug and strained relations between the U.S. and Britain.

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But it provoked an angry response last night from U.S. politicians, environmentalists and the firms it singled out for blame.

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