BP Company Mag Declares Gulf Businesses “Prospering” Because Of Disaster Relief

There is such a thing as looking too hard for the upside to things, and BP has apparently discovered it.

Benoit Faucon at The Wall Street Journal somehow got a look at an excerpt from Planet BP, an online publication exclusively for BP employees, in which a “BP reporter” put one of the most outrageous silver linings yet on the murky oil cloud spreading across the Gulf of Mexico.

According to the article, the unnamed reporter was able to find a “seafood entrepreneur” in Louisiana who asserted that “there is no reason to hate BP,” as well as an official in the tourism industry who sees the oil company as friend to the region that sends business to the Gulf Coast. While it is clear that supporters of BP still exist in the area, one statement in the publication sounds like nothing more than an attempt to put a positive spin on a situation that has no positives left:

“Much of the region’s [nonfishing boat] businesses — particularly the hotels — have been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil emergency response teams.”

While the report briefly concedes to the concern of visitors that all seafood in the region is now contaminated, the whole thing is in bad taste. Surprising, coming from a corporation whose CEO has expressed such strong devotion to the cleanup effort.

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