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[Diablous]

Nikov has been going out of his way to insult people in several threads.  He has been muted for a week.

[ReDeadEr]

Nikov has been going out of his way to insult people in several threads.  He has been muted for a week.

Ah. I take it that's a no, then?

As for debates where either side could make shit up and not get called on it, I think that'd be cool.

[Aqizzar]

Wake up!  Wake up!  It's time for lawsuits!

In a lawsuit filed in New Orleans, the Justice Department accuses BP, its partners in the ruptured well and drilling contractor Transocean of failing to take "necessary precautions" to prevent or control the April 20 blowout.

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The suit asks the court for civil penalties under the Clean Water Act and to declare eight of the defendants liable without limitations under the federal Oil Pollution Act. It asks a court to impose all removal costs and damages caused by the oil spill, including damages to natural resources, on the companies, according to the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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The suit will join nearly 80 others that have been consolidated in New Orleans. The defendants include BP and oil companies MOEX and Anadarko, which were partners in the Macondo well off Louisiana; Transocean and its partner, Triton Asset Leasing...  Halliburton was not named in Wednesday's lawsuit, but Holder said both civil and criminal investigations were still under way, and other defendants could be added.

And you probably thought it was swept under the rug after BP agreed to the $20bil escrow fund.  Out of sight, out of mind, nothing left but the crying and ad campaigns.  Well lo and behold, the wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine.  I can't wait to see how long this takes to resolve, and what the outcome might be.

[Fossaman]

Hopefully BP gets hit hard enough with lawsuits that no other oil company will be stupid enough to cut corners on this sort of thing ever again. Probably not going to happen, but maybe they'll at least think twice.

[sonerohi]

I'm going to laugh if we get some special suspension of the "cruel and unusual punishment" rule, so that everyone who inhabits the coast can line up and punch these people square in the throat.

[Bauglir]

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[nenjin]

And you probably thought it was swept under the rug after BP agreed to the $20bil escrow fund.  Out of sight, out of mind, nothing left but the crying and ad campaigns.  Well lo and behold, the wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine.  I can't wait to see how long this takes to resolve, and what the outcome might be.

I predict: 12 years, settlement, $25 to $30 billion in cash pay outs.

It should be just enough so Gulf Coast residents can purchase brand new condos on the beach, on land that a developer bought for pocket change from desperate property owners.

[Earthquake Damage]

I'm going to laugh if we get some special suspension of the "cruel and unusual punishment" rule, so that everyone who inhabits the coast can line up and punch these people square in the throat.

We can suspend the bill of rights without passing an amendment?  Sweet!  I can't wait until all sorts of evildoers, who we just know are guilty (we just know, okay), can be tried repeatedly for an offense until they're found guilty.  If at first justice doesn't succeed, try try again!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm going to laugh if we get some special suspension of the "cruel and unusual punishment" rule, so that everyone who inhabits the coast can line up and punch these people square in the throat.

We can suspend the bill of rights without passing an amendment?  Sweet!  I can't wait until all sorts of evildoers, who we just know are guilty (we just know, okay), can be tried repeatedly for an offense until they're found guilty.  If at first justice doesn't succeed, try try again!

Would you like to hear somthing disturbing?

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Metal I think that wasn't actually a link even though it looked a lot like one. You can't just make your text blue and hope it magically leads somewhere awesome.

[Cthulhu]

Uh, he was referencing LCS.

Besides links are yellow on this forum.

[Mipe]

Only if you use that theme.

[RedKing]

Hopefully Union Carbide Morton-Thiokol Exxon BP gets hit hard enough with lawsuits that no other company will be stupid enough to cut corners on this sort of thing ever again. Probably not going to happen, but maybe they'll at least think twice.

Fixed.

[nenjin]

Oh yes. It's probably time for the snake to shed its skin again, and be reborn "New Fuels" or some other complete and total deception.

[RedKing]

Oh. No, I wasn't saying those companies are now BP, just the whole scenario of "Company f**ks up bigtime, gets hit with a financial penalty, and.....nothing changes." And you look at Union Carbide in Bhopal or Exxon in Alaska, they managed to foot drag and stall so long that a lot of the people directly damaged by their actions died before receiving a penny. And the amount they were hit for is now chump change because of decades of inflation.