BP contract ‘shielded Halliburton’

 

Belfast Telegraph
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
 
A US judge has ruled that Halliburton can avoid paying most of the pollution claims that resulted from the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill because it was shielded in a contract with well owner BP.

However District Judge Carl Barbier said Halliburton was not exempt from paying punitive damages and civil penalties that arise from the April 20 2010 blow-out off the Louisiana coast, which could amount to billions of dollars.

The judge also said Halliburton’s indemnity could be voided if the company was found to have defrauded BP. He did not rule on BP’s claims that Halliburton committed fraud by declaring the cement safe to use.

Houston, Texas-based Halliburton supplied cement for the ill-fated Macondo well that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and US government investigators have found that the cement failed to seal to the well properly.

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Related: Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won’t Go Away
 
Halliburton, Dyncorp lobbyists stall law banning human trafficking and sex slavery
 
Paul Joseph Watson Alex Jones
January 1, 2006

Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries, Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite.

On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.

“Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?”

Read more: Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won’t Go Away

 

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