Feds vow to prove gross negligence by BP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to ignore arguments by BP that the Gulf Coast's natural resources are making a "robust recovery" from the company's massive oil spill.
In a strongly worded court filing Friday, government lawyers also renewed their vow to prove BP engaged in gross negligence or willful misconduct leading up to the deadly rig explosion in 2010 that killed 11 workers and spawned the nation's worst offshore oil spill. BP could be liable for billions of dollars in fines if U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier sides with the government.
The memo's strong language is a sign that BP and the Justice Department aren't close to a settlement to resolve the federal government's claims against the oil giant before a trial scheduled for next year.
In a strongly worded court filing Friday, government lawyers also renewed their vow to prove BP engaged in gross negligence or willful misconduct leading up to the deadly rig explosion in 2010 that killed 11 workers and spawned the nation's worst offshore oil spill. BP could be liable for billions of dollars in fines if U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier sides with the government.
The memo's strong language is a sign that BP and the Justice Department aren't close to a settlement to resolve the federal government's claims against the oil giant before a trial scheduled for next year.
This is simply Obama asking for more campaign contributions while appearing to care about the devastated gulf. Now he will come to BP's rescue and sweep it all under a rug for a tidy sum. Just watch the dates and follow BP's campaign contributions in Obama's disclosures. He did the same thing to the insurance industry, fiegned single payer, then remarkably settled for giving 30 million new customers to the insurance industry without cost controls with millions more to come. Its called doing business in a corrupt society, thats all.
Hasn't BP already paid like $23b? It seemed like they were going out of their way to pay for things. And they're still trying to make an example of them? How come they never make mention of Halliburton or Transocean? Weren't they responsible as well?
With all those record profits such accidents should hardly happen... and i do not believe the damge they caused is anywhere near recovered... likely still have blobs of oil floating underwater we don't know about still!