be gained from damaging BP as a going concern...Both agreed that BP must meet its obligations to cap the leak, clean up the damage and meet legitimate compensation costs." BP has finished installing the first free standing riser which will be used when a third vessel (most likely the Helix Producer) starts collecting and processing oil. June 27 Alex is downgraded to a tropical depression while crossing Yucatan and then elevated to a tropical storm once it hits the Gulf. BP and Shell are among the companies that evacuate personnel from their rigs in the western Gulf. G20 Toronto Summit Declaration says, "Following the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico we recognize the need to share best practices to protect the marine environment, prevent accidents related to offshore exploration and development, as well as transportation, and deal with their consequences." Unified Command issues press release headlined, "Volunteers, agencies counter misinformation about oil spill" which quotes Bianca Ephraim, a receptionist at the National Park Service who takes calls about oil in Florida saying, ""Yes, there are tar balls here and there...But our water is clear as glass." Harv Wilson, identified as a contractor in the release, flatly dismisses a rumor that oil-coated birds were being stolen from beaches at night, in order to hide the evidence of the spill. Tar balls wash ashore on the Mississippi beaches of St. Andrews beach and at the Lake Mars pier in Gulf Park Estates, Mississippi. June 28 BP says it is spending $100 million a day on the spill. BP denies a report attributed to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin on RIA Novosti that Hayward is going to resign. Sechinto made the comments before meeting Hayward to discuss TNK-BP which is responsible for a quarter of BP's global oil output. After the meeting both sides said the leadership change was not discussed. BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells says that waves of 10 to which is possible even if Alex skirts the spill area could delay connecting the riser to Helix Producer I to begin a third relief vessel. Wells says it will take three days of good weather to complete the operation. Allen says that even though Development Driller III is within of the Deepwater Horizon wellbore and has begun ranging, it would probably take until the end of August before the bottom kill operation would be complete. Louisiana Department