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Oil-Spill Trial Against BP Begins Company, partners could be on the hook for billions more
Backstory BP has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges and has racked up more than $24 billion in spill-related expenses. But the federal government, Gulf Coast states and individuals and businesses hope to convince a judge that the company and its partners are liable for much more in civil damages under the federal Clean Water Act and other environmental regulations. Under the Clean Water Act, BP could be on the hook for nearly $18 billion. (AP)
New Orleans BP bears most of the blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico because it cut corners and put profits ahead of safety, a U.S. Justice Department attorney charged Monday at the opening of a high-stakes trial that could result in the oil company and its partners being forced to pay billions more in damages. BP attorney Mike Brock said that the oil company made “errors in judgment.” But he accused rig owner Transocean Ltd. of failing to properly maintain the rig’s blowout preventer and claimed cement contractor Halliburton used a “bad slurry” that failed to prevent oil and gas from traveling up the well.
Eleven workers were killed when the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP exploded April 20, 2010. An estimated 172 million gallons of crude spilled into the Gulf over the following three months. Justice Department attorney Mike Underhill said the catastrophe resulted from BP’s “culture of corporate recklessness.” “BP put profits before people, profits before safety and profits
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before the environment,” he said. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing the case without a jury, and the trial is separated into at least two phases. The first phase, which could last three months, is designed to determine what caused the blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved. The second phase will determine how much crude spilled into the Gulf. MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (AP)