BP's claims' process expected to be revamped within two weeks Palm Beach Post In contrast, people whose businesses took an economic nosedive after the oil spill and are now having trouble getting loans likely won't receive … Feinberg Explains Oil Spill Compensation as He Prepares to Take OverThe Washington Independent Oil Spill: Joint Investigation of BP ClaimsTIME (blog) Feinberg pushes BP compensation instead of suitFinancial Times PR Newswire (press release) –WUSF 89.7 News –The Florida Independent (blog) all 332 news articles »
BP ‘informed of leak’ by worker weeks before oil spill
BP shares fall another 2pc on new allegations that it ignored safety warnings before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more on Daily Telegraph
A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”. Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day. The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows. The United States Environmental Protection Agency … Video Rating: 5 / 5
BP eyes spill capture result by week’s end
Energy giant trying to capture oil after ‘top kill’ manoevere’s failure. 31 May 2010 11:43 AM Read more on Business Spectator
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