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BP bought Kevin Costner's oil spill clean-up machines despite field test failure
2015-04-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: BP spent $16m (10m) on an oil spill clean-up machine pitched by actor Kevin Costner at the height of last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster even though the machines failed their initial field tests. In the week of the one-year anniversary of the capping of the well, it has emerged that the oil company gave top priority to testing the devices ahead of the 123,000 other suggestions from the public for plugging the well and scooping up more the millions of gallons of crude from deep water, marshes...
BP oil spill fund spends $5bn in paying claimants
2015-04-16 13:14:00| Offshore Technology
The administrator responsible for managing the BP oil spill compensation fund has said that more than $5bn has been paid to the claimants, so far.
British Columbia: oil spill response shows unprepared for more tankers
2015-04-11 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: British Columbian officials on Friday criticized the Canadian government's response to an oil spill in the waters around Vancouver, calling into question plans for new crude oil export pipelines in the Pacific Coast province. Nearly 3,000 liters of oil spilled after an anchored bulk carrier began leaking bunker fuel in English Bay, just west of Vancouver's downtown core, on Wednesday. Officials in the province said the coast guard responded but was slow to contain the slick, which spread towards...
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BP ends attempt to oust oil spill claims administrator
2015-03-07 08:57:17| Energy - Topix.net
BP has ended its effort to have courts remove the administrator of claims arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A federal district judge had refused to remove Patrick Juneau from the job.
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BP ends attempt to oust oil spill claims administrator
2015-03-06 20:27:24| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
BP has ended its effort to have courts remove the administrator of claims arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A federal district judge had refused to remove Patrick Juneau from the job.
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