Gulf Oil Slick

[Daryn]

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

I'd love to see BP officials taken into custody for criminal charges that would actually result in prision time... but not until the damn leak is contained. We are at their mercy right now. And the Gulf region has been changed forever. There are types of fish that are still not back in the waterways of Valdez.

One could make the argument for negligent homocide charges for the lives of the 11 workers that were lost in this. Who would get tagged for those charges would be an interesting legal debate... but it's not out of the realm of legal possibility to prosecute on those grounds....

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