Gulf Oil Spill Lawsuits Begin

 

 

Several federal lawsuits have been filed over the oil spill that is currently spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion on one of BP’s offshore rigs. One lawsuit was filed in New Orleans, Louisiana.  That suit was filed on behalf of two Louisiana commercial shrimpers who allege that the spill “is causing dangerous environmental contamination of the Gulf of Mexico and its shorelines, threatening Louisiana’s sensitive wetlands” and it “will continue to cause loss of revenue to persons (and businesses) who are being prevented from using the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana’s Coastal Zone for diverse activities, including work and to earn a living.”

Among other things the plaintiffs are seeking “economic and compensatory damages in amounts to be determined at trial, but not less than five million dollars,” the suit said.  Besides BP, the suit names Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc., which owns the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig; Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., which was in charge of cementing the well and well cap; and Cameron International Corp., which manufactured the rig’s “blow-out preventers” designed to stop an explosion.

In another complaint, a commercial fisherman sued BP, Transocean and insurers on behalf of a proposed class of plaintiffs, alleging the spill is destroying the marine life vital to the fishing industry.  A BP executive agreed with a U.S. government estimate that the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could be pumping up to 5,000 barrels a day of crude into the ocean, far more than previously thought.
 

 

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