Gulf Oil Spill Claims Disputed By BP
BP Plc has tallied up claims made by states and local governments on the U.S. Gulf Coast for economic and property damages from the Macondo oil spill, and come up with a figure of $34 billion, which it...
View ArticleReality is what you pay for ~Disenfranchised Citizen
Making things right. Let me just tell you how much I hate every possible phrasing of this sentiment. Previous to the Deepwater Horizon, whenever I head this phrase used, it carried a certain ring of...
View ArticleAhead of Trial, Talk of a BP Settlement in 2010 Oil Spill ~New York Times
With a major civil trial scheduled to start Monday in New Orleans against BP over damages related to the explosion of an offshore drilling rig in 2010, federal officials and those from the five...
View ArticleTrial Set To Start On BP’s Responsibility For Gulf Oil Spill
According to The New York Times: On Sunday, “the details of an offer by federal and state officials to the oil company started to emerge. The plan, worth a total of $16 billion, would limit the fines...
View ArticleThe Cost of Catastrophe ~Gulf Restoration Network
The first week of the trial to determine civil liability for BP, Transocean, and Halliburton in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster came to a close on Thursday. The question of the day: how did...
View ArticleCompanies begin defense in Gulf oil spill trial
Workers on the drilling rig that exploded at the outset of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill catastrophe were “trying to get it right” as they monitored BP’s well for signs of trouble before the blast,...
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