Environment

More Evidence BP Will Escape Unharmed

Robert Gibbs today mentioned that BP will be fined "billions" of dollars.

Yeah, okay. I'll believe that when I see it. Exxon only ended up paying around $125 million, whittled down over nearly 20 years from $5 billion.

And then there's this via John Cole:

More than 25 years after a plume of toxic gas from an American-owned chemical plant wafted over the slumbering city of Bhopal, killing thousands, eight former executives of the company’s Indian subsidiary were convicted of negligence on Monday. The men were sentenced two years in prison and fined 100,000 rupees, or $2,100.

They were the first criminal convictions stemming from the leak at the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, a central Indian city. The leak killed 3,000 people almost instantly, and thousands more died later from the aftereffects of the toxic gas, an ingredient in pesticides the plant produced.

Justice!

I assure you, BP is assembling its legal defense team now. And they will entrench.