Vessels monitor a oil burn in the area of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, July 13, 2010. BP officials have placed a containment cap over the leak in hopes that the flow of oil will be diminished. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) (AP)
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President Barack Obama makes a statement after being briefed on the BP oil spill relief efforts in the Gulf Coast region, Friday, June 4, 2010, at Louis Armstrong International New Orleans Airport in Kenner, La. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)
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Protesters gather outside of the BP offices in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 to demonstrate against the Gulf oil rig disaster. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) (AP)
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This image from video provided by BP PLC early Sunday morning, June 13, 2010 shows oil continuing to pour out at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard has demanded that BP step up its efforts to contain the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the weekend, telling the British oil giant that its slow pace in stopping the spill is becoming increasingly alarming as the disaster fouled the coastline in ugly new ways Saturday. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES (AP)
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This image from video provided by BP PLC early Sunday morning, June 20, 2010 shows oil continuing to gush millions of gallons a day, from the broken wellhead, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES (AP)
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GULF SHORES, AL - JUNE 08: Workers pick up oil patches and tar that washed up on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 8, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Early reports indicate that BP's latest plan to stem the flow of oil from the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident may be having some success. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
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Oil floats in the Gulf of Mexico near Orange Beach, Alabama, U.S., on Friday, June 18, 2010. The BP Plc oil spill, which began when the leased Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, is gushing as much as 60,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, the government said. Photographer: Kari Goodnough/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)
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Oil cleanup workers hired by BP pick up oil on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Friday, July 2, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is expected to come ashore over the July 4th weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) (AP)
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In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 18:17 CDT, a new containment cap, top, is lowered over the broken wellhead at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Monday, July 12, 2010. Deep-sea robots swarmed around BP's ruptured oil well Monday in a delicately choreographed effort to attach the tighter-fitting cap that could finally stop crude from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico nearly three months into the crisis. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES (AP)
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This combo made from images taken from video provided by BP PLC shows oil flowing from two of three valves on the new 75-ton cap atop the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at 17:04 CDT Wednesday, July 14, 2010, left, and the top of the cap at 17:56 CDT on Thursday, July 15, minutes after the flow of oil was choked off. BP vice president Kent Wells said the oil stopped flowing into the water at 14:25 CDT after engineers gradually dialed back the amount of crude escaping through the last of three vents in the cap, an 18-foot-high metal stack of pipes and valves.(AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES (AP)
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The view from an approaching helicopter shows the armada of drillships and other vessels surrounding the site of the blown out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Credit Brett Clanton / Chronicle
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Oil gushes from a valve atop the failed blowout preventer (BOP) at the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, U.S., in an image captured by the Skandi remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) camera at 7:35 a.m. Central Standard Time (CST) on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. BP Plc installed a new cap on its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and will start testing today whether this will stop the gusher while work continues on a permanent plug. Source: BP Plc via Bloomberg
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GULF OF MEXICO, LA - JULY 27: (EDITORS NOTE: Distortion caused by heat.) Ships assist in clean up and containment near the source of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill July 27, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. Work continues to put a permanent plug on the well which has leaked an estimated three to five million barrels of oil. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
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Hairdresser Karen Jackson wears a t-shirt that reads "We've been BPeed on!" on the front of the shirt and "Gulf Oil Disaster 2010-??" on the back Saturday, July 3, 2010, in Orange Beach, Ala. Jackson says she is worried about the effect the spill is having on her community and what will happen if local business continues to falter. "I would hate to have to leave this place. We love it here." She said her business is way off what it should be for the season, "down here we make all of our money in the summer," she says. Her husband's work as an electrician has dried up she says, so he has signed on to work cleanup for BP. ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle ) (Houston Chronicle)
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A driver rolls down the highway with messages such as "$ave the Gulf Coa$t" and "Tony Hayward C.E. O of B.P. Give us out Live Back" while driving Sunday, June 27, 2010, in Pensacola, Florida. ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle ) (Houston Chronicle)
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This still image from a live BP video feed shows a view from a submersible while checking the integrity of the well head on August 3, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. BP prepared Tuesday to plug the worst oil leak in history, although the Gulf of Mexico region will be counting the environmental and economic costs for years, perhaps decades, to come. Already delayed by a week due to Tropical Storm Bonnie, the long-awaited "static kill" was put off again at the last-minute when a leak was discovered on Monday in the cap that has been sealing the runaway well since July 15. US spill chief Thad Allen said the leak had been stopped overnight and that the operation to ram in heavy drilling fluids, known as mud, would commence as soon as "injectivity tests" had given the procedure the all-clear. AFP PHOTO / BP == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / NO SALES / NO MARKETING / NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN == (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)(Photo Credit should Read /AFP/Getty Images) (AFP/Getty Images)
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In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 12:23 a.m. EDT, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 Aug. 3, 2010 shows the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico being raised to the surface. The blowout preventer wasn't expected to reach the surface until Saturday, at which point government investigators will take possession of it. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES (AP)
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DAUPHIN ISLAND, AL. | JULY 4, 2010 : A cleanup worker, wearing a protective coverall and carrying a small scoop, punctuates an otherwise typical holiday beach scene as patrols the beach looking for tar balls on Independence Day. While exact numbers are elusive, tourist business along the Gulf Coast all reported feeling the sting of lost income from a noticeable dip in tourism this summer following the Deepwater Horizon spill. (Houston Chronicle)
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GULF OF MEXICO | JUNE 26, 2010 : Streaks of oil are seen on the surface of the water near the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The amount of oil spilled, and what happened to the oil remains in debate, but in August, the Department of Energy and United States Geological Survey announced, that it estimated a total of 4.9 million barrels of oil had been released from the BP Deepwater Horizon well. (Houston Chronicle)
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GRAND ISLE, LA. | JULY 15, 2010 : Oil containment boom floats just off the pier as fishermen cast lines near the bridge leading to the island after sun sets on the first full day of fishing after a ban on sport fishing was lifted. Commercial fishing remained closed, but happy recreational fishermen flocked to the water on a beautiful evening. Most were BP contractors working on the cleanup. One was Bobby Walker of Houma, La., who said he had been coming to the island to fish for over 30 years and praised the great fishing and natural beauty of the island. "But who would have ever thought I would be here all summer working on the oil spill." (Houston Chronicle)
NEW ORLEANS — With a trial over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill looming, BP PLC is asking a federal judge to block two plaintiffs’ experts from testifying about an alleged disregard for safety throughout the energy company that those experts say led to the nation’s largest offshore oil spill.
BP’s legal maneuver to limit the two California experts from testifying about the alleged lack of a safety culture at BP was made public Monday after U.S. Magistrate Sally Shushan unsealed 30 court motions to limit and block expert testimony. BP filed 17 of the motions, seeking to block expert testimony on a number of issues behind what happened to cause BP’s well to blow out.
The trial begins Feb. 27 in federal court in New Orleans. It will determine the division of responsibility for the disaster that began with the explosion of the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010, which killed 11 men about 50 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast.
Besides BP, other companies involved in the spill — including Cameron International, Halliburton Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Co. — and the Justice Department filed their own motions to block experts from testifying at trial. The sparring parties are seeking to block testimony about a slew of issues involving how the well was cemented, how drilling fluids were poured into it and how pressure tests were interpreted. The trial is expected to rely heavily on expert testimony.
But BP’s attempt to block Robert Bea, a University of California-Berkeley engineer, and William Gale, a California-based fire and explosion investigator and consultant, from testifying is pivotal for the plaintiffs’ case, which charges that BP was reckless in its actions. The plaintiffs and federal and state governments are seeking to get U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to find BP grossly negligent, a finding that could result in billions of dollars in fines.
In pretrial depositions and in an expert report, Bea and Gale argued that BP showed a disregard for safety throughout the company.
Their testimony — if it is allowed at trial — would be expected to paint BP as a cavalier company that has failed to learn lessons from previous disasters — including the 2005 explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others and a major spill in 2006 from a BP pipeline in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
In its filing, BP charged that Bea and Gale’s report was “the opposite of good science.” BP charged the two experts with focusing solely on BP and analyzing documents and evidence “spoon-fed to them” by plaintiffs lawyers. BP accused the experts of ignoring the “safety culture of the other parties” involved in the spill, in particular Transocean Ltd., the drilling company running operations aboard the Deepwater Horizon.
BP said Bea and Gale failed to take into consideration a report by Lloyd’s Register that was done one month before the explosion. Lloyd’s report found serious fatigue problems with Transocean’s decision to lengthen workers’ hitches aboard the Deepwater Horizon by one week, from 14 days to 21 days. Lloyd’s specializes in assessing safety aboard maritime facilities.
The plaintiffs’ lawyers declined to comment on BP’s filing. Gale did not return a telephone call seeking comment. Bea said he was unable to comment due to a confidentiality agreement with plaintiffs’ lawyers.
Attempts to exclude experts from testifying at trial are standard.
But Ed Sherman, a Tulane University law professor, said he would be surprised if Barbier excluded experts because this will be a non-jury trial.
“My guess is that most of them will qualify,” Sherman said.
He said Barbier will want to hear what the experts have to say and that he will discern unreliable expert testimony.
If memory serves, the CEOs of Exxon, Shell, Chevron and Conoco-Phillips testified before Congress, under oath, regarding the BP Macondo well. These industry experts testified that the BP Macondo well architecture and drilling/completion procedures were sub-standard.
Perhaps the public interest would be served, for these gentlemen to repeat themselves, to the court.
Your Honor, we should like to add several expert witnesses, to rebut the BP challenge of these expert witnesses …
Should not basic fairness, allow the expert witnesses to defend their reputations and their work? Should not the plaintiffs be allowed to further ‘qualify’ their expert witnesses, once challenged?
BP lawyers are probably filing these motions to build up the fees they are charging BP. They well know their motions will be overruled as these witnesses will be subject to cross examination. They are also trying to get the first argument they intend to make on this matter.
They will probably move to exclude the fact that they are and have been paying one of their own witnesses $100K a month.
They are depending partially on the Lloyd’s inspector’s findings of a month before the blow out. I wonder if they were able to get the Deepwater Insurance Conpanies’ findings made about a year before the blow out suggesting a three month moratorium on such drilling to catch up on maintenance and training or if those reports still exist. Of course BP refused to go along with such a moratorium.
These people are scam artists and murderers. Do NOT eat anything out of that Gulf unless you want to die from some disease you are sure to get. My belief this was done on purpose to convince others of their clean energy plan. Just like allowing mines to cave in and letting the miners die. This is about rich people above the law. And they always will be.
CAD please provide a link to your often cited “Deepwater Insurance Conpanies” call for a drilling moratorium. I’ve never been able to find anything about it on the web. Furthermore, the rig insurance coverge would be on Transoceans, not BP.
Sorry, but the Gulf of Mexico has a flow from west to east and then out into the Atlantic Ocean as the ‘Gulf Stream’.
Let the Brits worry about the dispersants and the remaining oil. Fish and Chips in Liverpool may not require as much oil to fry. And the dishes may be easier to wash.
The Texas shrimp, flounder, mahi-mahi, tuna and all the rest is … Yum Yum. As a matter of fact, I would recommend Texas seafood over the nuclear waste seafood from the North Pacific. The Japanese have adopted VERY stringent radiation standards for their food, for obviously good reasons. So Texas fishermen should be getting a good price for their fish this year … and the next ten thousand or so years.
Please pass the Texas Jumbo Fried Shrimp and Oysters!
BP charged the two experts with focusing solely on BP and analyzing documents and evidence “spoon-fed to them” by plaintiffs lawyers. – bp is in trouble, lots of trouble.
T_T, The reference to the moratorium was found in a trade magazine, the name of which I believe was “Oil and Gas”, As I recall it was mentioned in an article in reference to the fact that the rig owners were overstating the loss of employment by the field workers in La. and the fact that only several of them had applied for lost wages from a special fund set up to handle such matters with a deadline of only a month left to apply. The lawyers on both sides are aware of the article and its implications. I didn’t save it. If I had known your interest I would have saved a reference to it but since I gave you the information before, I thought you may have satisfied yourself.
The USA allows 5 Times as much radioactivity in our seafood, as the NEW Japan standards. Canada allows 10X as much as Japan.
So, naturally, contaminated seafood from the North Pacific will be headed AWAY from Japan and toward Canada and the USA. Plus, seafood caught along the Aleutian Islands, Southern and Western Alaska, and the Marshall Islands will increasingly be TOXIC WASTE for a long, long, long-long time.
The point is, the Western Gulf of Mexico is full of some VERY good seafood. Sorry about Eastern Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and ‘Cuber’. After that the deliberate, willful BP oil-dump will have dispersed. England will never receive the benefit of the BP (formerly British Petroleum) actions in the Gulf of Mexico.
This Trail Tramp feller is kinda interesting … always kinda plugged in with and for BP. The TT is sort-of BP’s ‘Best Friend Forever’ BFF on the Houston Chronicle.
So, when he casually asked, about a reference for the voluntary drilling moratorium proposed some time ago …
I expected, checked and searched …
Sure enough, those links are now GONE from the regular search engines. All that is required is a few bucks to buy, the top thousand hits or all the hit at the top of the page. Google and those other search engine guys are in this for the bucks.
So, perhaps for some obscure reason, BP wants to pretend there was never an industry discussion of a voluntary drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
But there was such a proposal. And the links will resurface soon enough. What BP can pay to ‘vanish’, ‘Big Red’ can pay to re-appear.
Nuffy, I’m not pro-BP, but I am pro-oil & gas. I understand how important oil & gas is to our national security. I don’t have anything against green-energy. Build all the wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars you want. You will still be decades from being able to replace what oil and gas will be able to provide for the US today.
So all the links to this so called voluntary drilling moratorium have suddenly vanished? And you guys believe that the nefarious BP is behind the conspiracy? Sounds more like Fun and Games in loony liberal land.
Well, as a matter of fact, LOTS of churchfolk, oil-hands, hunters, fishermen, seamen, Republicans, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, working men, schoolmarms and lots of other REGULAR Texas folk …
Happen to think that BPSux, and that BP has set up more than their share of nasty little deathtraps in and about Texas.
Oh and nope, we could giveahoot if those links are gone. Most of us are used to the ‘for sale’ nature of search engines. When it matters,we learned long ago to ARCHIVE what we want.
Just gatekeepers trying to sell publicly available information. No big deal, one way or the other.
Heck, I have seen adds to ‘increase visibility’ on search engines. It is part of their business model, as is selling the list of top searches.
No big deal, just a fact of life.
BP IS nefarious, but this kind of stuff is trivial.
Oh my, I see many tin foil hats in here….
That said…. do not BP and the others use in-house attorneys? I know for a fact that one of the companies that had men on that rig is using its own attorneys, and if so then these motions have absolutely nothing to do with billing hours.
Notice the third or so paragraph down states that all parties involved have filed motions… but that wouldn’t make for a good headline, would it?
All the BP killings, explosions, lost-time-accidents, oil spills, bribery, wars, lawsuits, fines and pending criminal charges are add up collectively to ‘culling the herd’.
It is probably time to knock BP in the head, like a sick heifer. BP is a ‘cutter -canner’ (Mexican-Number-2) grade, as far the meat of the matter.
Perhaps a few criminal charges, fines and BIG damage lawsuits, will ‘get their attention’. I have my doubts. BP should probably be banned from drilling, production and pipeline activities in these United States and our territorial waters. They have just not done a good enough job to stay in business.
If memory serves, the CEOs of Exxon, Shell, Chevron and Conoco-Phillips testified before Congress, under oath, regarding the BP Macondo well. These industry experts testified that the BP Macondo well architecture and drilling/completion procedures were sub-standard.
Perhaps the public interest would be served, for these gentlemen to repeat themselves, to the court.
Your Honor, we should like to add several expert witnesses, to rebut the BP challenge of these expert witnesses …
Should not basic fairness, allow the expert witnesses to defend their reputations and their work? Should not the plaintiffs be allowed to further ‘qualify’ their expert witnesses, once challenged?
BP lawyers are probably filing these motions to build up the fees they are charging BP. They well know their motions will be overruled as these witnesses will be subject to cross examination. They are also trying to get the first argument they intend to make on this matter.
They will probably move to exclude the fact that they are and have been paying one of their own witnesses $100K a month.
They are depending partially on the Lloyd’s inspector’s findings of a month before the blow out. I wonder if they were able to get the Deepwater Insurance Conpanies’ findings made about a year before the blow out suggesting a three month moratorium on such drilling to catch up on maintenance and training or if those reports still exist. Of course BP refused to go along with such a moratorium.
These people are scam artists and murderers. Do NOT eat anything out of that Gulf unless you want to die from some disease you are sure to get. My belief this was done on purpose to convince others of their clean energy plan. Just like allowing mines to cave in and letting the miners die. This is about rich people above the law. And they always will be.
This will be the largest verdict in the history of American jurisprudence. BP is about to get bent over.
CAD please provide a link to your often cited “Deepwater Insurance Conpanies” call for a drilling moratorium. I’ve never been able to find anything about it on the web. Furthermore, the rig insurance coverge would be on Transoceans, not BP.
Pammie,
Sorry, but the Gulf of Mexico has a flow from west to east and then out into the Atlantic Ocean as the ‘Gulf Stream’.
Let the Brits worry about the dispersants and the remaining oil. Fish and Chips in Liverpool may not require as much oil to fry. And the dishes may be easier to wash.
The Texas shrimp, flounder, mahi-mahi, tuna and all the rest is … Yum Yum. As a matter of fact, I would recommend Texas seafood over the nuclear waste seafood from the North Pacific. The Japanese have adopted VERY stringent radiation standards for their food, for obviously good reasons. So Texas fishermen should be getting a good price for their fish this year … and the next ten thousand or so years.
Please pass the Texas Jumbo Fried Shrimp and Oysters!
Sure glad I’ve never been culled. That doesn’t sound very pleasant.
BP charged the two experts with focusing solely on BP and analyzing documents and evidence “spoon-fed to them” by plaintiffs lawyers. – bp is in trouble, lots of trouble.
T_T, The reference to the moratorium was found in a trade magazine, the name of which I believe was “Oil and Gas”, As I recall it was mentioned in an article in reference to the fact that the rig owners were overstating the loss of employment by the field workers in La. and the fact that only several of them had applied for lost wages from a special fund set up to handle such matters with a deadline of only a month left to apply. The lawyers on both sides are aware of the article and its implications. I didn’t save it. If I had known your interest I would have saved a reference to it but since I gave you the information before, I thought you may have satisfied yourself.
The USA allows 5 Times as much radioactivity in our seafood, as the NEW Japan standards. Canada allows 10X as much as Japan.
So, naturally, contaminated seafood from the North Pacific will be headed AWAY from Japan and toward Canada and the USA. Plus, seafood caught along the Aleutian Islands, Southern and Western Alaska, and the Marshall Islands will increasingly be TOXIC WASTE for a long, long, long-long time.
The point is, the Western Gulf of Mexico is full of some VERY good seafood. Sorry about Eastern Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and ‘Cuber’. After that the deliberate, willful BP oil-dump will have dispersed. England will never receive the benefit of the BP (formerly British Petroleum) actions in the Gulf of Mexico.
This Trail Tramp feller is kinda interesting … always kinda plugged in with and for BP. The TT is sort-of BP’s ‘Best Friend Forever’ BFF on the Houston Chronicle.
So, when he casually asked, about a reference for the voluntary drilling moratorium proposed some time ago …
I expected, checked and searched …
Sure enough, those links are now GONE from the regular search engines. All that is required is a few bucks to buy, the top thousand hits or all the hit at the top of the page. Google and those other search engine guys are in this for the bucks.
So, perhaps for some obscure reason, BP wants to pretend there was never an industry discussion of a voluntary drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
But there was such a proposal. And the links will resurface soon enough. What BP can pay to ‘vanish’, ‘Big Red’ can pay to re-appear.
Fun and Games on the Internet.
Nuffy, I’m not pro-BP, but I am pro-oil & gas. I understand how important oil & gas is to our national security. I don’t have anything against green-energy. Build all the wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars you want. You will still be decades from being able to replace what oil and gas will be able to provide for the US today.
So all the links to this so called voluntary drilling moratorium have suddenly vanished? And you guys believe that the nefarious BP is behind the conspiracy? Sounds more like Fun and Games in loony liberal land.
TT
Well, as a matter of fact, LOTS of churchfolk, oil-hands, hunters, fishermen, seamen, Republicans, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, working men, schoolmarms and lots of other REGULAR Texas folk …
Happen to think that BPSux, and that BP has set up more than their share of nasty little deathtraps in and about Texas.
Just saying …
TT,
Oh and nope, we could giveahoot if those links are gone. Most of us are used to the ‘for sale’ nature of search engines. When it matters,we learned long ago to ARCHIVE what we want.
Just gatekeepers trying to sell publicly available information. No big deal, one way or the other.
Heck, I have seen adds to ‘increase visibility’ on search engines. It is part of their business model, as is selling the list of top searches.
No big deal, just a fact of life.
BP IS nefarious, but this kind of stuff is trivial.
Oh my, I see many tin foil hats in here….
That said…. do not BP and the others use in-house attorneys? I know for a fact that one of the companies that had men on that rig is using its own attorneys, and if so then these motions have absolutely nothing to do with billing hours.
Notice the third or so paragraph down states that all parties involved have filed motions… but that wouldn’t make for a good headline, would it?
@Nuffsaid500 “Most of us are used”. Fredian slip about liberals?
Right Flank
Sigmund Freud was a fraud.
I am the Right Flank for conservatives.
Everybody is to the left of me.
RIGHT, in every sense of the word.
I’d say you are so far to the right, you’ve looped back around to the other side.
Culling the Herd
All the BP killings, explosions, lost-time-accidents, oil spills, bribery, wars, lawsuits, fines and pending criminal charges are add up collectively to ‘culling the herd’.
It is probably time to knock BP in the head, like a sick heifer. BP is a ‘cutter -canner’ (Mexican-Number-2) grade, as far the meat of the matter.
Perhaps a few criminal charges, fines and BIG damage lawsuits, will ‘get their attention’. I have my doubts. BP should probably be banned from drilling, production and pipeline activities in these United States and our territorial waters. They have just not done a good enough job to stay in business.
Cull the herd!