The oil giant pay over 150 billion for emissions – Aftonbladet

The platform Deepwater Horizon exploded and caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Now the British BP reached an agreement on compensation with the US government and five states.

The oil giant to pay $ 18.7 billion, corresponding to about SEK 158 billion, over a period of 18 years, writes The Wall Street Journal.

On April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking the oil platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. Eleven people were killed and millions of barrels of crude oil leaked into the water and floated later up on beaches along the US coast.

The Deepwater Horizon drilled oil for British Petroleum, BP, which has now reached an agreement with the US government and states of Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Texas.

Five billion of lawsuits

The oil giant has agreed to pay $ 18.7 billion, corresponding to about SEK 158 billion, over a period of 18 years, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Of this amount, $ 7.1 billion will go to the United States and the five Lander, writes the news agency Direkt. 4.9 billion in terms of compensation for legal costs to the provinces. $ 5.5 billion will go to the Clean Water Act, which is an initiative against water pollution. Finally going 1 billion to settlement with over 400 local authorities.

“Care About The Small People”

Just a few days before the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico had the Swedish Carl-Henric Svanberg entry as Chairman of BP.

After a meeting with President Barack Obama June 16, 2010 Svanberg asked the American people to apologize and said that BP certain cares about “the small people”. A speech that aroused both ridicule and criticism because “small people” rather means short adults than ordinary people.