Thursday, September 4, 2014

British Petroleum's Recklessness Caused Gulf Oil Spill, U.S. Judge Rules


HuffingtonPost
A U.S. judge has ruled that BP's recklessness caused 2010's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a move that could cost the company billions. Earlier this week Halliburton, the company in charge of sealing the completed Deepwater Horizon well that spewed millions of gallons of oil into the gulf, agreed to pay $1.1 billion to settle claims arising from its negligence. Story here.

1 comment:

PinP said...

Not sure how you feel, but I think the Chief Pooh Bahs of both BP and Halliburton (Dick Cheney) should be in the slammer!

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