[BITList] bp - to much ?

[CT's]

who would have thought it?

bp lawyers don’t agree...................................

well, it’s worth a try [that’s what they are paid for]

ct

BP lawyers challenge government's size estimate of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
     
     
By Steven Mufson
Saturday, December 4, 2010 
BP lawyers have said that government estimates of the size of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are too big, perhaps by as much as 20 to 50 percent, signaling a dispute that will determine how many billions of dollars of fines BP will have to pay under the Clean Water Act. 

The BP attorneys made their comments in an Oct. 21 meeting with staff members of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Priya Aiyar, one of the commission lawyers, revealed at a hearing Friday. 

The oil giant, in a paper submitted to the presidential oil spill commission, also took issue with one of its draft reports. BP said that the assertion that "a consensus is emerging that roughly 5 million barrels of oil were released by the Macondo well is both premature and inaccurate." 

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