Alabama AG sues BP over “broken promises”
Alabama AG sues BP, others over Gulf oil spill
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s attorney general is suing BP and others over the Gulf oil spill because he says the oil company has broken too many promises about accepting responsibility for the disaster.
Attorney General Troy King filed two lawsuits in federal court in Montgomery late Thursday afternoon on behalf of the state. The lawsuits – one against BP and the other against Transocean, Halliburton and other companies associated with the spill – seek economic and punitive damages. No specific amount was listed.</em>
While I applaud any attempt at holding the environment raping and pillaging BP to task for willfully putting profit over life, I have to laugh at “broken promises”. A corporation has one single interest- profit. And they will say and do anything, legal or not, to get more of it.
Now, if you had held the BP CEO and rig manager, and anyone else involved in the decisions that led to the completely avoidable fuckup in the Gulf in jail for at least manslaughter, then nobody would care what the hell some slimy polluter “promised”. And they’d clean the shit up, too.
