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BP Quietly Prepared for Legal Fight in First Days of Gulf Oil Spill
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWhile it publicly touted its expert cleanup response in the first days of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP quietly prepared for the legal battles it would likely face, McClatchy reports. The oil giant hired experts expected to work for potential plaintiffs, assembled top-notch legal teams, and presented volunteers, fishermen and other workers with waivers, hoping they would sign away some of their rights to sue. In Florida, BP hired Akerman Senterfitt, the state's largest law firm and a major player in the state capital. When President Obama met with the company's executives last month, BP ...
Oil Spewing From Gulf Well May Be Twice as Much
By not in system - AOL NewsHOUSTON (June 11) -- With each new look by scientists, the oil spill just keeps looking worse. New figures for the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico show the amount of oil spewing may have been up to twice as much as previously thought, according to scientists consulting with the federal government. That could mean 42 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have already fouled the Gulf's fragile waters, affecting people who live, work and play along the coast from Louisiana to Florida - and perhaps beyond. It is the third - and perhaps not the last - time ...
Gulf Spill: Officials Hope Dome Will Soon Capture 'Majority' of Leaking Oil
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCoast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is in charge of the federal response to the spill, said the containment dome that BP lowered over its gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico is capturing about 10,000 barrels of oil a day while estimates of the amount of leaking oil range from 12,000 barrels a day to 25,000 barrels. Asked on "Fox News Sunday" whether he expected the percentage of captured oil to go up, Allen said, "I don't want to create any undo encouragement by anybody" and gave BP a grade of "incomplete" on progress so far. In an interview on the BBC's "Andrew Marr Show," BP chief executive ...
Offshore Drilling Projects Move Forward Despite Moratorium
By David Sessions - Politics DailyGovernment regulators have granted seven permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers since President Obama announced a moratorium on offshore drilling projects, the New York Times reports. On May 14, in response to the massive oil spill at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama announced a halt to new deepwater drilling projects and the end of the full waiver of environmental review BP received for its Deepwater Horizon rig. Since the well exploded on April 20, the Department of the Interior has granted 19 environmental waivers for gulf drilling projects and 17 ...
Oil Spill: New Attempt to Plug Well With Tube Under Way
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyA mile-long tube was being put in place Saturday as BP sought to siphon oil from a broken underwater pipeline in the latest attempt to stop the flow of oil fouling the water of the Gulf of Mexico and threatening wildlife, fisheries and beaches. The oil company had to pull the siphon tube back up Friday night and readjust its connection to a tanker that will collect the oil at the surface if the fix works, the Associated Press said. The tube was then sent back down to be inserted in the pipeline by robotic submarines in the hope that oil can be sucked up through it like a straw. Even if it ...
Robot Subs Dispatched to Gulf for Oil Rig Leak
By Doug Simpson - AOL NewsBATON ROUGE, La. (April 26) -- A fleet of robotic submarines is leading efforts to plug an oil well that's spewing crude oil at the Gulf of Mexico's seabed, nearly a mile below the water's surface, although officials conceded the operation might not work. At least four remote-controlled subs are being used in an attempt to shut off the well that's been flowing oil since a drilling platform collapsed and sank into the gulf last week, about 50 miles from the Louisiana coast, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said. The rig's explosion on Tuesday left 11 of the rig's workers missing and presumed ...
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