BP Sitting On GIS Data In Houston http://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/8499/

British Petroleum, specifically BP’s senior IT leadership in Houston, has been engaged in an active campaign to keep Geographical Information System (GIS) data from the national incident and local emergency response command structures of the United States of America. This information comes from a link provided to the Oil Drum thread that many have been utilizing to obtain expert opinion and analysis of what is taking place within our territorial waters.

What this means is a that a single multinational corporation has taken key emergency response information away from a sovereign governmental agency in its time of greatest need, ostensibly to protect itself from lawsuits or public outrage. In short, BP is engaging in damage control and placing American resources at risk