Judge: BP must indemnify Halliburton from oil spill damage claims
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans said on Tuesday that BP must honor it contract with Halliburton and indemnify the company for third-party compensatory claims.
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South Alabama children, communities languish in BP oil spill aftermath
BP’s television advertisements proclaiming that the Gulf of Mexico is open for business have helped the tourism industry in the Gulf States rebound from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and a disastrous 2010 season. But behind the sparkling beaches, the heaping plates of fresh seafood, and happy fishermen shown in BP’s ads are families living in near third-world squalor and whole communities on life support because the BP oil spill destroyed so many jobs.
Internal emails indicate BP hid early oil-spill rate estimates
Emails and other documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act lawsuits or turned over as part of court proceedings ahead of the February 27 BP oil spill trial suggest politics and spin had more influence on determining the amount of oil BP’s blown-out Macondo well spewed into the Gulf of Mexico each day than actual science.
Judge finds Transocean contractually protected from oil-spill claims
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.
Newly acquired documents indicate White House purposely low-balled BP oil spill size
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.
U.S. Justice Dept seeks oil-spill fines against BP, Transocean, Anadarko
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.
BP will likely settle for $25-billion payout ahead of trial, lead analyst predicts
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.
Alabama attorneys see positive outcome for state in BP oil spill trial
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.
BP plans big U.S. expansion, wants public trust back
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.
Beasley Allen firm seeking BP oil spill damages for city of Troy, Alabama,
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.