Oil spills

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• Colombian farmers sue BP in British court

  15 Oct 2014: In the first case of its kind, the farmers claim environmental damage caused by BP’s oil pipeline threatens their livelihoods

• Row over EU marine protection fund tasked with lobbying for oil drilling

  25 Sep 2014: €36m fund could make it easier for oil and gas companies to win public support for deep sea drilling, environmentalists say

• Judge orders BP to stick by Deepwater Horizon payouts agreement

  24 Sep 2014: BP had argued in court that flawed formula gives money to businesses for questionable claims relating to 2010 spill

• BP back in court in bid to reclaim settlement payments from workers

  24 Sep 2014: Judge to hear arguments about whether cleanup workers can be paid for chronic medical problems diagnosed after April 2012

• Naomi Klein: the hypocrisy behind the big business climate change battle

  13 Sep 2014:

  Richard Branson has pledged $3bn to fight climate change, and delivered just $230m. Naomi Klein looks at the 'greenwashing' of big business and its effects – on the planet, and our own bodies

• 'BP should have to pay – they've done a lot of damage': Gulf workers hail ruling

  5 Sep 2014: Louisianans give emphatic response to ruling that could mean $18bn in additional fines for America’s worst offshore oil spill

• Deepwater Horizon: gross – more than £9bn hangs on that one short word

  4 Sep 2014: BP had made a provision of $3.5bn for simple negligence, but the gross variety could take the penalty to almost $18bn

• BP could face up to $18bn in extra fines after US ruling on Gulf of Mexico spill

  4 Sep 2014: Oil firm reckless and negligent over Deepwater Horizon disaster, says judge in decision wiping £5bn off stock market value

• BP's reckless conduct caused Deepwater Horizon oil spill, judge rules

  4 Sep 2014: Judge’s ruling could nearly quadruple the amount of civil penalties for polluting the Gulf of Mexico in 2010

• Halliburton reaches $1.1bn settlement over Deepwater Horizon oil spill

  2 Sep 2014: Halliburton provided the cement intended to seal the Gulf of Mexico well in the event of disaster and has been embroiled in an ongoing series of legal actions

• As Shell gears up to drill the Arctic, investors must ask serious questions

  Guardian Professional, 2 Sep 2014: The oil company has filed plans for offshore drilling but past safety blunders and operational failings in the region make it a high cost, high risk venture

• Lac-Megantic oil train disaster inquiry finds string of safety failings

  20 Aug 2014: Poor safety culture at train company and lax government supervision blamed for Quebec blast that killed 47

• Shell and Nigeria have failed on oil pollution clean-up, Amnesty says

  4 Aug 2014: Three years on from UN study saying it will take 30 years to clean up Ogoniland oil spills, little has changed

• Costa Concordia oil spill 'nothing to worry about'

  20 Jul 2014: Italian government plays down environmental threat as operation begins to remove stricken cruise ship from island of Giglio

• BP faces Deepwater Horizon lawsuit by investors including London councils

  4 Jul 2014: Shell also among shareholders bringing class action in Texas over disastrous 2010 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

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