“BP prolonged Gulf of Mexico oil spill by 2 months by concealing the rate of oil flowing from well"

[kpete]

Transocean Turns on BP With Scorching Oil-Spill Document
By SABRINA CANFIELD

NEW ORLEANS (CN) - BP prolonged the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by two months by concealing the rate of oil flowing from the broken Macondo well, Transocean claims in a document filed in the damages trial.

A bench trial to apportion damages is being held before U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. Penalties for Clean Water Act violations alone could range from $4 billion to $17 billion.

Transocean wrote in a heavily redacted "supplemental answer and affirmative defenses" that "BP's fraud was the proximate, intervening and superseding cause of the well continuing to flow until mid-July 2010. BP's misrepresentation and concealment of material information about the flow rate caused source control decision-makers to approve proceeding with the top kill over the BOP-on-BOP strategy in mid-May 2010. Because of that, a well that could have been capped in early May 2010 emitted tens of thousands of barrels per day for another two months causing significant environmental pollution."

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Transocean claims that BP's motive was to keep the true flow rate hidden, to minimize environmental fines, which are assessed by the barrel.


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[niyad]

1. we knew this from day one, did we not?

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Wait, you mean the nice guy on my tv

Telling me BP made a commitment to the gulf...is (gasp) lying?