Category Archives: Deepwater Horizon

BP Settlement Sells Out Victims – Buries Evidence of Oil Company’s Willful Negligence

Posted on March 5, 2012 by defensebaseactcomp

By Greg Palast at Mudflats [Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain’s television series Dispatches. From 1989-91, Palast directed the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding for Alaska … Continue reading →

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Furious Growth and Cost Cuts Led To BP Accidents Past and Present

Posted on October 26, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

A ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation. “The Spill [1],” a PBS FRONTLINE documentary drawn from this reporting, airs tonight. Check local listings. Jeanne Pascal turned on her TV April 21 to see a towering spindle of black smoke slithering into … Continue reading →

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Scientists skeptical about BP oil plumes ‘vanishing’ from Gulf

Posted on August 15, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

Medical Muckraker Non-government scientists are expressing skepticism about reports that BP’s huge mixed plumes of oil and oil-dispersant chemicals have vanished from the Gulf, the ProPublica‘s Marian Wang reported Tuesday. Wang’s compilation of quotes from media reports: “These are just … Continue reading →

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Suicide of spill worker prompts call for mental health aid

Posted on July 13, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

Greenspace LA Times After the suicide of a Gulf Coast fishing boat captain, Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) on Friday called on BP to fund efforts to address the “rising number of mental health problems” in the region caused by the … Continue reading →

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Hell has come to South Louisiana

Posted on July 12, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

“There has been a BP cover-up from day one,” Story by Dahr Jamail Photography by Erika Blumenfeld Clint Guidry is a shrimper from Lafitte, Louisiana. As we sit together, he shows me a picture of his house with 18 inches … Continue reading →

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Compensation in doubt for moratorium-impacted workers

Posted on July 3, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

New Orleans City Business The law partner of Ken Feinberg, the Obama administration’s special master for for adjudicating economic loss claims related to the BP oil spill, today said it’s unclear who will oversee a separate $100 million fund to … Continue reading →

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BP — not U.S. governement — is measuring oil spill carcinogens

Posted on June 29, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

Bryant Furlow at Epinews BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill is the largest toxic pollution site in U.S. history, but federal agencies are not measuring carcinogen levels in the resulting oil slicks, employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and … Continue reading →

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Wackenhut, G4S Security hired by BP to guard beaches

Posted on June 29, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

Alabama State Troopers Moonlighting as BP Security Guards At the Liberty Blog Read their continuing coverage here WMR’s sources on the Gulf coast report that BP Security personnel are being augmented by off-duty Alabama state troopers and G4S Wackenhut private … Continue reading →

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BP accused of killing endangered sea turtles in cleanup operation

Posted on June 29, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

Environmentalists press Obama administration to put a halt to BP’s ‘burn fields’ to dispose of oil from the Gulf spill Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent Guardian Co.UK Endangered sea turtles and other marine creatures are being corralled into 500 square-mile … Continue reading →

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Parsing BP’s $20B Compensation Fund

Posted on June 28, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

From the WSJ Law Blog BP, as we previously noted, agreed to set aside $20 billion dollars to compensate oil-spill victims. It’s a staggering amount made all the more so by the fact that the compensation fund doesn’t preclude states … Continue reading →

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