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Gulf oil leak video could haunt Obama
Will the Gulf oil leak cam engulf President Barack Obama?
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Obama May Get Political Boost From Pressing BP to Set Up Fund
President Barack Obama scored a political victory by pressuring BP Plc to commit billion for damages from an environmental disaster that’s weighing on his presidency as the company struggles to contain thousands of barrels of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico each day.
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BP Execs Arrive for Obama Meeting on Compensation
BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and CEO Tony Hayward arrived at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama intended to hammer out a plan for compensating Gulf Coast residents
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Obama: We will make BP pay for its oil spill
President Barack Obama has told the American people the energy company BP will be required to pay for all the damage caused by its giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the president’s first nationally-televised address from the Oval Office since he took office 17 months ago. Eight weeks after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending oil spewing into the …
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Barack Obama says he will make BP pay for damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Amid anger over his initial response to the crisis, the President called the disaster an “assault on America” during his first Oval Office address. Almost two months after an oil rig explosion, millions of litres of oil are still pouring into the ocean. In his speech, Obama, said the disaster should mark the beginning of the end for America’s addiction to fossil fuels. But as RT’s Lauren Lister reports, the nation may not be ready for that just yet.
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Oil Rig blow out gulf of mexico. By DeepWater Horizon. Fire flame spill beer can rig hit huge gas pocket. huge fire blows in gulf. Amazing video. fishing marlin tuna offshore next to deepwater horizon
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Video: Obama Addresses Nation on Oil Spill
Speaking live before the American public in a televised address from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama spoke about concerns over the ongoing BP oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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Obama slams BP, demands climate bill action
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen , Wednesday 16 June 2010 at 09:59:00 President uses Oval Office address to outline plans for independent Gulf clean-up and compensation fund President Obama yesterday used a televised address from the Oval Office to insist BP will be forced to set up an independently run account to cover the compensation and clean-up costs arising from the Gulf oil spill. Returning …
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Poll: Obama not tough enough on BP
A new national poll indicates that most Americans don’t think President Barack Obama’s been tough enough on BP. (PHOTO CREDIT: Mark Oswald/CNN) Washington (CNN) – When it comes to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a new national poll indicates that most Americans don’t think President Barack Obama’s been tough enough on […]
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President Obama talks of gulf coast recovery, new energy sources
WASHINGTON — Calling the widening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced,” President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday in his first Oval Office address that the oil would be cleaned up and the gulf’s ecology restored, and that oil company BP would fully compensate the spill’s victims.
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