A former BP employee who helped form BP’s oil-spill cleanup response in Mississippi is suing the oil giant, alleging his bosses terminated him after he complained to them about how the company was handling cleanup efforts.
Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that BP leased for offshore oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, is officially off the hook for oil-spill related expenses that BP tried unsuccessfully to share with the company.
Top White House officials manipulated the scientific findings of independent experts to “seriously lowball the amount of oil leaking from the BP Deepwater Horizon,” according to a group of federal, state, and municipal employees.
Lawyers for the federal government are posturing to collect heavy fines from BP and other companies for playing a role in the causing 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Justice Depratment argued in a hearing in New Orleans Friday that BP, Transocean, and Anadarko should be found liable ahead of February’s trial for violating U.S. pollution laws.
A leading oil research analyst predicts that BP will opt to settle all charges with the U.S. federal government, including some hefty criminal penalties, over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico before the start of legal hearings set to begin February 27 in New Orleans.
Luther Strange
Jere Beasley, Founding Shareholder of the Beasley Allen law firm, believes Alabama is in good hands with Attorney General Luther Strange and his staff representing the state in the trial against BP for damages stemming from the oil company’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The trial is set to begin next month in New Orleans.
Priding itself on “making things right” in Gulf of Mexico and coastal communities hard-hit the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP says it has big plans for expanding its operations in the United States. The announcement wasn’t supposed to comfort residents and businesses still struggling to recover in the BP spill’s oily aftermath, but to reassure investors that it doesn’t intend to hold back on its push to find and extract more oil and gas from U.S. lands and waters, despite the ongoing destruction of Gulf ecosystems and frustration of people who depend on them for a living.
The Troy, Alabama, city council voted recently to allow the city to pursue a claim against BP for revenues lost during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and in its aftermath. The disastrous oil spill erupted less about 50 miles south of Louisiana in April 2010, flooding the Gulf of Mexico with crude oil just before peak tourism and fishing seasons began.
BP began drilling operations at the Macondo well on October 7, 2009. Less than seven months later, on April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in a series of massive fire balls, leaving 11 workers dead and setting off the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. What events caused the BP oil disaster will likely be disputed for some time to come. But one thing seems evident: Had BP followed its own and government-mandated safety procedures more carefully, the catastrophe likely wouldn’t have happened.
Mobile Press-Register reporters went to Alabama’s Dauphin Island Monday looking for tar balls deposited on the beaches by BP’s Gulf oil spill, but they found the most telling signs that all is not right in the Gulf in a number of fish pulled from the surf with “bloody red lesions.”
