Alabama sues BP over Gulf oil spill

[Poboy]

Alabama sues BP over Gulf oil spill
Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 8:41 PM

Alabama's attorney general is suing BP and others over the Gulf oil spill because he says the company has broken too many promises about accepting responsibility.

Attorney General Troy King filed two lawsuits in federal court in Montgomery late Thursday afternoon. One is against BP, the other is against Transocean and others, but they are identical in wording.

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http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/alabama_sues_bp_over_gulf_oil.html

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BP cuts oil spill payments to businesses in half in August
Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:14 PM
David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
At the start of the month, BP called a news conference to assure oil spill claimants that a transition to a new, independent claims process would not affect their August advances.

But an internal e-mail message obtained by The Times-Picayune suggests that may not be the case. Presented with the document, in which field adjusters are ordered to limit August advance payments for commercial claimants to half of June's payout, BP and its subcontractor acknowledged Thursday that they decided to slash the advances specifically because President Barack Obama's appointed claims administrator, Ken Feinberg, would be taking over.



The Collins oyster family in Golden Meadow, Wilbert Collins Sr., left, Tracy, Nick, Levy lll and Levy lV. The Collinses say BP has paid only a fraction of the monthly income they experienced in a down year in 2009, and they were expecting a bumper crop this year.

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http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/bp_cuts_oil-spill_payments_to.html

[damntexdem]

1. Oh my gosh, government attacking the private sector!

How do those commie Alabama officials sleep at night after being so mean to poor little companies like BP?

;-)

[Poboy]

2. KO just reported on the Alabama story.

He also interviewed a La. Parish Pres. who is one of many who are refusing for assets to be pulled until after hurricane season.

Thank you Keith Olbermann.