BP vows to pay oil slick costs

ENERGY giant BP vowed yesterday to pay “all necessary and appropriate clean-up costs” from the US oil pollution disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The comments came after the US administration demanded that BP do more to tackle a vast oil slick that is threatening swathes of Louisiana’s coast, placing responsibility for the clean-up squarely at the firm’s door.

“BP takes responsibility for responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. We will clean it up,” it said, vowing to consider all compensation claims “promptly” and pay them quickly if justified.