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TexasTowelie

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Fri Dec 13, 2019, 06:18 AM Dec 2019

'BP is leaving me like roadkill as it slinks out of town' [View all]

As British Petroleum pulls up stakes to leave, one Alaskan has no problem referring to the company as “scum of the earth … at least some at the top.” The man’s name is Chris McIntyre and he says BP is leaving him broke after stealing his idea, an idea that has saved BP billions in damages – and saved the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from environmental extinction.

“BP used my idea, saved the company from ruin and this is what happens? Now the company is slinking out of Alaska and leaving my family and I like roadkill with not so much as a glance behind,” McIntyre said.

It would seem McIntyre has reason to be bitter — millions of dollars of reasons bitter.

Yet, McIntyre does not focus so much on the dollars; he’s more worried about whether his family will “ever be whole again.

Read more: https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/bp-is-leaving-me-like-roadkill-as-it-slinks-out/article_b4677e0c-1b8e-11ea-83a7-3b6101e8a30b.html

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