and in current news, BP has started their rebuttal. they don't want to pay the victims any more.
They have set aside money to cover the cost of their mistake, but BP's attempt to weasel out of this should not be allowed so long as dead fish keep washing up, and birds stay falling out of the sky.
carry on.
This is still going on? I live on the coast and I'm not even keeping up with the current affairs of our waters
initially, right after the spill, they agreed to the payments towards the families affected. great right.
now, a few years later, the company decided to take the case back to court in order to stop the payments because they felt that the people being compensated were taking advantage of the payments ( listing things they needed to be compensated for that had nothing to do with the oil spill) the trial should be over by end of april.
also, apparently their idea of 'cleaning up' the spill was to push the oil downwards into the ocean using some chemical, and that's what's causing the dead fishes to wash up. the dead birds may also be a by-product.
well I knew about the bold portion just not the dead fish/dead birds
still washing up. Our beaches have been pretty clean for the most part (ocean springs/biloxi ms) though, but, you wouldn't really be able to tell if something was in the water with our coffee colored waters here
lol,has the water always been that color?
I guess for the most part, the dead fishes are not measurable to the amounts in 2010, but because 'dead fishes' gave way to live fishes that have an unhealthy amount of chemicals in them from the clean up (as reported by fishermen) , the effects it still has on the people who live on the coast makes it equivalent to if not worse than just seeing the fishes wash up because now people are consuming a 'healthy' looking fish.