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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsE-mails Prove: BP Lied About Massive Scale of Oil Disaster...
BP Oil Spill Flow Rate Vastly Understated For Weeks, Emails ShowEmails that attorneys representing a defendant in the BP oil spill case plan to introduce in February show for the first time that the oil company knew the massive scale of the 2010 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico weeks earlier than previously disclosed.
BP has long maintained that it provided full disclosure to the public and the federal government about its knowledge of the spills extent and did so promptly. The emails suggest otherwise.
BP has said in the past that it learned of the spill's full extent months after the April 2010 blowout. But the emails indicate that the company knew almost immediately after the drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring 17, that the spill may be extraordinarily large.
BP pleaded guilty in mid-November to more than a dozen felony charges related to the spill, including lying to Congress about the size of the leak, as part of a wide-ranging deal settling the company's corporate criminal liability. Justice Department officials said a probe of individual criminal activity related to the spill is ongoing and may result in more indictments...
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E-mails Prove: BP Lied About Massive Scale of Oil Disaster... (Original Post)
Indi Guy
Dec 2012
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lob1
(3,820 posts)1. I wish the courts could sentence BP to hell.
Prometheus Bound
(3,489 posts)2. I bet no one on DU ever figured BP management were lying assholes.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3. Tony Hayward behind bars would be a good start
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)4. If corporations are people
Why can't BP get the death penalty?
SouthernDonkey
(256 posts)8. +1,000
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)5. The lesson I take from this is, if you are a rich asshole you can kill 11 people, destroy
the environment and all you have to do is settle. What a wonderful country we live in.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)6. It was a massive coverup by everyone.
BP, the government, the regulators, everyone. That thing is still probably leaking.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)7. Not surprised
love_katz
(2,584 posts)9. Well, since the Supremes ruled that corporations are people...
this seems like the perfect time to put as many of BP's top brass in jail as possible.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)10. Send drones after some of those assholes.
If Obama is going to go after terrorists, they count IMHO. They quietly do more harm to us and we don't even notice.
(FYI-I don't agree with drone program. This is tongue in cheek.)
malaise
(269,157 posts)11. +1,000 n/t
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)12. This makes me so angry
I could hardly breathe when all that was happening, I was so upset. The gulf is home to an amazing variety of life. I live in Fl and I love the Gulf.