Claim oil spill response not offensive enough Activist review alleges plan not acceptable
By NEIL HARTNELL
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
Environmental activists last night urged the Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) to meet us on the battlefield amid claims its oil spill response plan is insufficiently offensive .
Fred Smith QC, the Callenders & Co attorney and partner, urged both the oil explorer and the Government not to employ procedural guerrilla tactics and trench warfare to halt or bog down the Judicial Review challenge launched by his clients.
The attorney for Waterkeepers Bahamas and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay (Save the Bays) also confirmed he had sent all filings with the Supreme Court to BPC via its lawyers, Graham, Thompson & Company, after the oil explorer told its shareholders and the London stock market that the case presently amounted to little more than media speculation .