Congratulations to the Victoria Shamrocks for winning the gold medal in the A Division by defeating the New Westminster Salmonbellies, who come away with the silver, 14-7 in the final game of the 2015 Intermediate Provincial Championships Monday, August 3rd.
Judge approves $20BILLION settlement over 2010 BP oil spill in the biggest ever environmental pay out in US history. A New Orleans federal judge granted final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving years of litigation over the worst offshore spill in the nation's history.
And Deepwater was not BP's first significant spill. In 2007, BP Products North America paid a criminal fine of more than $60 million for violating federal environmental regulations in Texas and Alaska, including a 2006 spill on the North Slope of Alaska that resulted from BP's failure to address pipeline corrosion.