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Alabama Suing BP, Transocean Over "Catastrophic Harm" Caused By Oil Spill
From Reuters:
Alabama is suing BP Plc and Transocean for damages sustained from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the state's attorney general said on Friday.
"We are making this claim because we believe that BP has inflicted catastrophic harm on the state," attorney general Troy King told Reuters.
"We are suing them for the amount it will take to make Alabama whole," he said, declining to name a figure.
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You mean, sue the Federal Goverment?
LOL
You cannot sue Baracks Payee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the Southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin, yes
Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Here I come Alabama
Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Sweet home Alabama
Oh sweet home baby
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor's true
Sweet Home Alabama
Lordy
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Yea, yea Montgomery's got the answer
Excellent clip and appropriately sung with a rousing spirit!
capital punishment for bp!
In other news, BP sues Alabama for destroying its oil with their beaches.
The ol' Blackwater Reverse Litigation Fu technique!
"Darwin's waiting room." -- Dennis Miller.
OUTFRIGGINSTANDING tmosley!! Time to change the diaper.
federal gov't co-defendants?
"We are making this claim because we believe that BP has inflicted catastrophic harm on the state," attorney general Troy King told Reuters.
"We are suing them for the amount it will take to fill Alabama's hole," he said, declining to name a figure.
But...but...I thought 75% of the oil was gone. No harm no fowl (pun intended) is all I have to say.
BTW does whatever payout Sweet Alabama is finally awarded (sometime around 2033 by my estimate) actually come out of that cool $20 Billion we've been promised will eventually be placed in a trust (as in trust it's there) to payout claims? Just asking because I may have to scale back my scam claim scheme if it does. :>)
Lawyers - exactly what is wrong with this country. Catastrophic harm - wow. The spill was a minor environmental event. Nothing more, nothing less. An absolute tragedy for the people and the familes who lost their lives/loved ones. And the fidsherman all need to be 100% compensated. But to the rest of the leeches trying to suck money out of the situation - go away. Or esle stop driving your cars and AC in your home. This was a non event - move on.
Lawyers - exactly what is wrong with this country. Catastrophic harm - wow. The spill was a minor environmental event. Nothing more, nothing less. An absolute tragedy for the people and the familes who lost their lives/loved ones. And the fidsherman all need to be 100% compensated. But to the rest of the leeches trying to suck money out of the situation - go away. Or esle stop driving your cars and AC in your home. This was a non event - move on.
Fuck you.
Minor event if you include the last 5 billion years.
Exactly.
Forget the Great Recession, Repressed/Stimulated Depression or whatever one would call what this current economic reality is...we are in the deepest Ecological Depression in the past 65 million years. We as a species are the 6th Great Extinction event, the first since the dinosaurs. And we caused it.
Lawyers - exactly what is wrong with this country. Catastrophic harm - wow. The spill was a minor environmental event. Nothing more, nothing less. An absolute tragedy for the people and the familes who lost their lives/loved ones. And the fidsherman all need to be 100% compensated. But to the rest of the leeches trying to suck money out of the situation - go away. Or esle stop driving your cars and AC in your home. This was a non event - move on.
90% of your comments are about defending BP.
Not to extrapolate too much, but as the recession drags on, ppl are getting grumpier. The key failure of the bailouts will be the tearing of the national/social fabric of cooperation and self-sufficiency. Consumerism did a bit of that too (keeping up with Joneses increased us v. them one-upism). Auto bailouts and tearing of secured/priority rights still in investors minds as a new risk factor.
All of these factors will be a key issue in the coming collapse - strategic defaults, bankster hate, loathing of government, etc. Not predicting a Mad Max, but a reset of some sort.
What the hay! Didn't AL. AG get the memo?? The BP oil spill evaporated with little or no harm to the envirnoment. The giant "GoM dead zone" the size of MA reported yesterday in a Bloomberg article is completely unrelated to corexit (1 mm bbls of disperant used by BP) and the BP oil spill (4 mm bbls). The dead zone is due to fertilizer run off from growing corn in IN./ILL. BTW does the Al. AG know about increase in massive heart attacks for those who question BP.
+1
That's true. There's as much human-produced nitrogen in natural systems as human-produced carbon in the atmosphere. All that extra nitrogen, as you identify, cause those dead zones.
Nevermind that 40% of the nitrogen in your body comes from human/artificial sources.
Tempo,
You are embarrasing yourself. And we didn't land on the moon either. The GOM dead zone has nothing to do with this spill. It has been getting worse and worse every year. In fact - it is a MUCH bigger disaster than this minor spill ever was.
On what basis can you possibly conclude that this was a "minor" spill, considering no one alive comprehends or can articulate its true impacts.
Other than, apparently, our beneficiently omniscient federal government.
the only dead zone bubba should be explaining is the one between his ears
BP will use the "Chewbacca" defense. game over.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103454
Oops, BP Sr. VP Kent admits today pressure in blowout well is 4500 lb/psi over the expected 2200lb and the well is likely in communication with reservior. It is possible BP is continuing to pump mud to control the well pressure at 4500 lbs. I thought the well was dead, killed, etc. Incident commander admits more pressure testing underway. Of course the BP spill has nothing to do with the dead zone or the dead fish/animals. BP told us. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised that the Govt concludes corexit is benefical to the environment and BP will receive an award for its environmental efforts in the GoM.
Hardly surprising, given the local well are well
aware that the spill numbers have been 'fudged',
Texas is suing, Florida asked them to put up 2 bn in
an escrow fund, while another affected state has
hired a Dutch company to build a 'sand-dam'.
BP is not through with 'collateral damage', this
explains why they want to get hold of the oil
remaining in the rig.The states should also sue
NOAA, EPA and the MMS
What he meant to say was, "We are suing them for the amount it will take to make Alabama a hole."
I used to live in Alabama back in the 60's. It was already a hole.