BP just sent the State of Mississippi 15 million dollars to use for an advertising campaign to counter the bad press. As far as suing somebody, BP is the "Responsible Party". Try reading the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and not just the Wiki version.
Oil in the Gulfstream.
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Fair reply Bill, but time will tell what the damage and costs will be. Neither you nor I know this.
I am hoping for the best.
Walter
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IF BP acts like the Exxon spill, don't hold your breath on them paying the full bill for this. Sure, token payment, but thats it.
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What!? You think BP might try to pull a fast one?
Careful, Rue, or is it Ron, Paul's son might consider you "Un-American".
"Fri May 21, 8:28 pm ET
For weeks many have wondered why BP wouldn't allow outsiders to view the uninterrupted underwater video feed of the busted well that's been pumping oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The well came loose after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig the company leased from Transocean.
Experts on oil spills have cited satellite images of the Gulf slick to charge that BP's estimates of the volume of oil spewing out of the well into the Gulf's waters have been much too low. And they've contended that the surest way to find a reliable estimate is to get an extended look at the well's flow via live video footage. It took a month, but yesterday the company gave in to the chorus of cries from the public and lawmakers and allowed a live feed of the well to be placed on a congressional website.
So what the heck took them so long?
Well, a McClatchy report out today by Marisa Taylor, Renee Schoof, and Erika Bolstad suggests that the lagging response likely grew out of the same concern that may also have led BP to cut corners in enforcing safety measures on the Deepwater rig: in short, money. Legal experts told the McClatchy team that a sounder, agreed-upon estimate of the spill's reach would jumpstart costly court cases against the company, attracting droves of new plaintiffs. In other words, the bigger the oil spill, the bigger the damage awards the culpable company will have to cough up.
"If they put off measuring, then it's going to be a battle of dueling experts after the fact trying to extrapolate how much spilled after it has all sunk or has been carried away," Lloyd Benton Miller, one of the main plaintiffs' lawyers in the Exxon Valdez case, told McClatchy. "The ability to measure how much oil was released will be impossible."
For their part, BP officials announced this afternoon that they plan to release new flow-rate estimates on Saturday — and they also claim that the company can stop the flow of oil entirely by next week.
— Brett Michael Dykes is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News."
Careful, Rue, or is it Ron, Paul's son might consider you "Un-American".
"Fri May 21, 8:28 pm ET
For weeks many have wondered why BP wouldn't allow outsiders to view the uninterrupted underwater video feed of the busted well that's been pumping oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The well came loose after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig the company leased from Transocean.
Experts on oil spills have cited satellite images of the Gulf slick to charge that BP's estimates of the volume of oil spewing out of the well into the Gulf's waters have been much too low. And they've contended that the surest way to find a reliable estimate is to get an extended look at the well's flow via live video footage. It took a month, but yesterday the company gave in to the chorus of cries from the public and lawmakers and allowed a live feed of the well to be placed on a congressional website.
So what the heck took them so long?
Well, a McClatchy report out today by Marisa Taylor, Renee Schoof, and Erika Bolstad suggests that the lagging response likely grew out of the same concern that may also have led BP to cut corners in enforcing safety measures on the Deepwater rig: in short, money. Legal experts told the McClatchy team that a sounder, agreed-upon estimate of the spill's reach would jumpstart costly court cases against the company, attracting droves of new plaintiffs. In other words, the bigger the oil spill, the bigger the damage awards the culpable company will have to cough up.
"If they put off measuring, then it's going to be a battle of dueling experts after the fact trying to extrapolate how much spilled after it has all sunk or has been carried away," Lloyd Benton Miller, one of the main plaintiffs' lawyers in the Exxon Valdez case, told McClatchy. "The ability to measure how much oil was released will be impossible."
For their part, BP officials announced this afternoon that they plan to release new flow-rate estimates on Saturday — and they also claim that the company can stop the flow of oil entirely by next week.
— Brett Michael Dykes is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News."
When I look at that satellite photo, I don't see oil. I see the huge amount of land lost to COASTAL EROSION in Louisiana. Compare the actual satellite photo to a map of Louisiana, land that is shown on the map is no longer there!
Jefferson Parish Emergency Management has commandeered all of BP's hired boats on Grand Isle, parish Councilman Chris Roberts confirmed in an e-mail to WDSU on Saturday.
BP has more than 40 boats sitting behind the island, waiting idly as oil rushed into the passes headed toward the Barataria estuaries, Roberts said.
Parish officials took an air tour of the area Saturday afternoon and snapped photos of the boats.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office will escort the boats to the Bays, where Roberts said they should have been for days.
BP has more than 40 boats sitting behind the island, waiting idly as oil rushed into the passes headed toward the Barataria estuaries, Roberts said.
Parish officials took an air tour of the area Saturday afternoon and snapped photos of the boats.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office will escort the boats to the Bays, where Roberts said they should have been for days.
Is anyone on here actually in the KEYS -- we are waiting to book a big barefoot catamaran to go to the Dry Tortuga's until we get a better handle on the oil and the loop current. We are not pessimists, and more likely optomists. It would be nice to have someone who is actually there -- and not part of the Charter company
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Not sure if anyone mentioned this but the planet weeps oil naturally in copious amounts. Not to detract form this disaster, off Santa Barbara alone, 2000-3000/day leak out of fissures. So yes, the Earth handles it's own crude in it's own way.
Here's a bloggish spot on it-you can find more scientific papers on it also. Read it and seep.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.co...5/2010/05/back-when-this-all-first.php?ref=mp
Here's a bloggish spot on it-you can find more scientific papers on it also. Read it and seep.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.co...5/2010/05/back-when-this-all-first.php?ref=mp