Deeper, Baby. Deeper

[lame54]

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/bp-deepwater-horizon-well-permitted-18000

Larry King talked to Robert Kennedy Jr. who is representing the fishermen in Louisiana in a class action law suit against British Petroleum and James Carville about the incident at the Deepwater Horizon rig. Besides the problems with Halliburton and their faulty work with the cementing process and the lack of and the lack of an acoustic switch, Kennedy said they were also violating their permit by drilling too deeply. Although they were only permitted to drill down 18,000 ft., Kennedy said they now have evidence that they were drilling as deeply as 25,000 ft.

As Kennedy noted and Susie already wrote about here, it seems all they're worried about now is limiting their liability although the company is now trying to walk that back after the bad publicity.

The Democrats are introducing a bill to raise the liability cap that Kennedy also cited as a problem with their litigation. I think we're going to be lucky to ever get a penny back from BP or any of the companies involved but if BP violated their drilling permit as Kennedy claims here, it's going to make it harder for them to avoid responsibility for the disaster instead of pawning it off on the subcontractors.

[kentuck]

1. kick

:kick:

[Vincardog]

2. Kick again

[gratuitous]

3. Raising the liability cap now is futile for the present situation

The horse is long gone, so bolting the barn door doesn't do a thing right now. It would be nice to put the polluters on the hook in any future catastrophe, but good luck with that, too. While BP will take a public relations hit, they and the other extractive agencies will piss and moan about having to comply with all these intrusive federal over-regulations, their bought-and-paid-for Representatives and Senators will cry for them, and in the end nothing much will happen. Any enhanced penalties will be more than offset by caps on liability, and as a little sweetener, the extractive industries will get a fat tax cut. The price at the pump will go up a quarter a gallon to assuage the poor dears' tender sensibilities, so grievously affected by all the mean things people are saying about them.

[jgraz]

4. They can raise the liability cap on all damages that occur after today.

Meanwhile, let's start hammering Congress to remove ALL liability caps against ALL companies.

[Oceansaway]

5. K&R...n/t

[florida08]

6. sue baby sue

[lame54]

7. .