Log In | Register
Here in America, as a foreign entity you can kill 11 men, injure 17 more, cause unprecedented ecological and economical destruction to 4 states, destroy hundreds of thousands of animals, take over the media, science and regional healthcare, decimate cultures, chemically poison thousands of people, and leave a big fat mess behind, for the same cost as one bank’s government bail out, (Wells Fargo 2009).
Heck, last year alone BP slammed a net profit of $25.7 billion. So much for the 2010 worry that BP might go into bankruptcy over the fiasco.
And according to a UPI.com article, found here
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/02/05/Settlement-possible-in-BP-oil-spill-case/UPI-61971328459069/, state officials may actually be encouraging the idea, with the help of the DOJ and the administration.
The Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court
Article Source: Romantic-Future | Facebook
- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
- Public Discussion (4)
Meanwhile, BP battles furiously to suppress evidence for the trial, including information regarding the BP Texas City explosion, employee compensations on the Deepwater Horizon that was directly tied to cost cutting and Tony Hayward’s deposition. In fact, just yesterday BP won the right to keep important relevant emails from being presented to the court.
The questions unasked are: Do those affected want a settlement? Is it in our, or the world’s, best interest to set an easy pay out as a precedence for future drilling disasters? And most importantly, how can any settlement be reached regarding the future, with so little information, assessment, or response to current needs?
BP deceived the people in the Gulf disaster. Now they want to subvert justice. Your choice now to voice your support here or at Cherri Foytlin's FB page, or forever hold your peace and suffer in silence.
- 6 votes
#1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:54 AM ESTI am sick of big oil companies trampling the environment, killing people to keep "safety measures" cheaper, and having no organization that regulates them or oversees that regulation. IF there is one, it's clearly not doing anything. The worst part of all this drilling is that no matter where or how much oil they find, it is all finite. We need to be pouring money into clean cheap energy for cars, homes, and everything else that need it, not pouring money into oil companies. Look how many oil companies are reporting record-setting quarterly incomes, and at the same time increasing the cost of gasoline (petrol), natural gas, propane, and everything else that is produced from oil. Who is pocketing that money? The oil company executives, of course. Are they doing anything for the Gulf? Did they do anything for the Exxon Valdez oil leak? Not enough. There is no way to replace an ecosystem, or to pay for a human life, but that doesn't stop them. People, we ARE heading for an oil catastrophe. Bad drilling methods, leaking pipelines, exploding refineries, who knows? But it is going to cost us a lot more than what we're paying at the pump.
- 3 votes
The Future of Free Energy is here now! The end of oil, coal and nuclear pollution!
- 3 votes
You're in Easy Mode. If you prefer, you can use XHTML Mode instead. |
