Oil giant BP has spent tens of millions of pounds compensating people for the disaster around the gulf.
However Bryon Encalade of the Louisiana Oysterman Association, who is a proxy shareholder in BP, travelled to London today (April 14) to tell fellow investors the company was wasting money.
He said: “We’re here to inform the people this is their money that’s being wasted down there and going to places that we don’t know.
“Because we’re not getting it I can tell you and we need to get that message to the people who fund BP.”
Protesters gather outside London’s Excel before BP’s AGM
Mr Encalade, a lifelong oyster fisherman said his fishing beds were amongst the first to feel the impact from the oil spill, but compensation was still not getting through.
He added: “Now we have fishermen receiving cheques for six months work for $5,000, how can you support a family on that?
“The oysters in our communities they’re dead, the response to the disaster killed most of those oysters.
“We need to understand that they have scientific reports … putting out the message that’s everything’s ok but it’s not, it’s not!”
Luke Walsh