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Alabama says BP denies its claim over oil spill

Matthew Bigg Yahoo! News 09/18/2010
Alabama says BP denies its claim over oil spill

BP Plc has turned down Alabama's claim for $148 million in lost government revenue due to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the state's attorney general, Troy King, said on Friday.

Brad Pitt is 'willing to look at the death penalty' in bizarre rant against BP

Brad Pitt has waded into the Gulf oil spill controversy with an extraordinary veiled attack on BP. The Hollywood actor said he would consider the death penalty for those to blame for the ruptured well that gushed millions of gallons of oil into the ocean.

New guidelines could rule out many BP oil claims

CURT ANDERSON Breitbart.com 08/21/2010
New guidelines could rule out many BP oil claims

A flower shop in Florida that saw a drop-off in weddings this summer is probably out of luck. So is a restaurant in Idaho that had to switch seafood suppliers. A hardware store on the Mississippi coast may be left out, too. The latest guidelines for BP's $20 billion victims compensation fund say the nearer you are geographically to the oil spill and the more closely you depend on the Gulf of Mexico's natural resources, the better chance you have of getting a share of the money.

The threat of the 'fake fishermen': How BP may be paying out millions in oil spill compensation to fraudsters

BP could be paying millions in compensation to 'fake fishermen', it has been revealed.

$23 million pay off for BP chief executive Tony Hayward

BP was last night poised to boot out boss Tony Hayward - with a near £15MILLION pay-off. The under-fire chief executive could go as early as today after being locked in talks over the weekend.

Deepwater Horizon alarms were switched off 'to help workers sleep'

Vital warning systems on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were switched off at the time of the explosion in order to spare workers being woken by false alarms, a federal investigation has heard.

BP Photoshop Saga: More Doctored Images Surface

Carl Franzen AOL News 07/22/2010

British PM's visit to U.S. clouded by BP worries

Matt Falloon Yahoo! News 07/19/2010
BP Photoshop Saga: More Doctored Images Surface

No more than 48 hours after BP confessed to using Photoshop in doctoring a photo of its oil spill crisis command center in Houston to make it appear "more panoramic," two new photographs of the oil spill response effort have been exposed as partial fakes as well.

British PM's visit to U.S. clouded by BP worries

David Cameron hopes his first trip to Washington as British prime minister will showcase a flourishing friendship with President Barack Obama, but it may be overshadowed by U.S. concerns over BP.

BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher

COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER Yahoo! News 07/15/2010

BP Installs Sealing Cap on Errant Well

SUSAN DAKER And CASSANDRA SWEET The Wall Street Journal 07/12/2010
BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher

The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring.

BP Installs Sealing Cap on Errant Well

BP PLC said Monday night it had installed a new sealing cap that could halt the oil spewing from its broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, raising the possibility that a nearly three-month long environmental crisis could soon be contained.


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