Comments on: BP Executives’ Human-Rights Miscalculation: Have They Bet the Company? http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-management/bp-executives-human-rights-miscalculation-have-they-bet-the-company/ DiversityInc: Diversity and the Bottom Line Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-management/bp-executives-human-rights-miscalculation-have-they-bet-the-company/comment-page-1/#comment-984 Anonymous Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:21:01 +0000 #comment-984 The various UNCLOS (i, ii, iii) , EEZ and variouos other conventions and treaties are too complicated for layman like me. While most countries claim 3, 12, 24 miles off-shore terretorial water (I’ll use this term for simplicity), United States claims 200 miles off shore. This is of course the Golden Rule, “he who has the gold makes the rule”.

I believe the Deep Water Horizon is about 40 miles from the Louisiana offshore.If the basis is only Territorial waters, or even Contigous zone, then BP could claim the Deep Water Horizon is International waters. Of course the US will insists on the Exclusive Economic Zone which is 200 NM offshore.US could and I would not be surprise, to claim “Continental Shelf” which extent to 350 miles offshore.

Back to the Territorial Water and Contiguous Zone, an international tribunal could find againts the US claim of Human Rights violation. Naturally, the US can and will claim Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 NM.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-management/bp-executives-human-rights-miscalculation-have-they-bet-the-company/comment-page-1/#comment-983 Anonymous Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:42:49 +0000 #comment-983 Mr Brown brings a whole new light onto this situation that should be more widely exposed. Just having human rights on the radar would have prompted a completly different discussion and maybe alternative actions.

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