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All but a handful of roughly 4,800 lawsuits seeking compensation for health problems have been dismissed. ... “It has a broader reach than the BP oil spill,” said Jason Clark, a Downs attorney
BP officials deny that the disease conditions are related to the spill, saying that dolphin deaths actually began being reported before the BP oil spill. [ 198 ] [ 212 ] [ 213 ] By 2013, over 650 dolphins had been found stranded in the oil spill area, a four-fold increase over the historical average. [ 214 ]
The direct economic consequences that the oil spill had on local economies are especially taxing on mental health as shown by a 2015 study. [28] Due to their location close to shorelines, many communities affected by oil spills are reliant on fishing as the main source of income.
Cleanup of the BP oil spill. In the weeks and months after the disaster, Mattiford, 59, said representatives from BP fanned out across the area handing out money and hiring people to work on ...
When the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010 and spewed many millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the disastrous spill damaged the economy, devastated the environment ...
In June 2010, Steve Goodie, [121] a comedy musician, wrote parody lyrics to The Doobie Brothers' hit song "Black Water" related to the BP oil spill. "Black Water [BP Version]" also had a YouTube video [122] and was a Top Ten hit on The Dr. Demento radio show. In 2011, Rise Against released a song titled "Help Is on the Way" on their album Endgame.
But after more than a decade of litigation following the largest offshore U.S. oil spill, Maas may well be the only person to receive a BP settlement for his injuries through an individual lawsuit ...
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]