Tag Archives: Oil spill

BP oil spill trial delay stirs up talk of a brewing settlement

February 28, 2012 – 11:06 am

By Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune Although there’s no guarantee a settlement will be reached, people who have been following the oil spill litigation say U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier wouldn’t have delayed the trial until next Monday if he didn’t think a deal was in reach to settle at least a portion of the case or possibly all of it. [...]

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BREAKING: Exxon Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation In Montana – Media Silent

July 20, 2011 – 5:18 pm

Posted by Reed B. Perry “A break in an oil collection pipeline on the eastern prairie of the Blackfeet Reservation has led to a seepage of crude that has been flowing approximately one mile over land and into the Cutbank river. Tribal officials received word of the spill on Tuesday, but it remains unclear when, or why the pipeline, which [...]

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Congressman Markey – Gulf used as a huge lab test to learn more about “dispersants”

July 28, 2010 – 9:39 am

Is it really alright with you that BP and this Administration used the Gulf spill as a scientific testing ground for the toxic dispersant Corexit 9500?

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