The Deepwater Horizon oil disaster was the largest oil spill this century. In its aftermath, BP paid out over $60 billion in the US. We can now report Mexico quietly accepted a $25 million payment to clear BP of responsibility for polluting its waters.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nathanieljanowitz/bp-mexico-deepwater-horizon-oil?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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BP spent at least $60 billion in total related to the 2010 spill, more than $10 billion of which went to affected US fishermen and businesses. Meanwhile, not a single peso has gone to an affected Mexican fisherman.
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The Mexican government simultaneously handed numerous lucrative energy contracts to BP. How lucrative? The contracts include five oil-drilling sites, two natural gas pipeline contracts, and a plan to build 1,500 BP-branded gas stations.
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Those contracts were signed under the energy reform program put forward by outgoing president Enrique Peña Nieto, who is due to leave office in about two months. The extent of the damage to Mexican waters is still publicly unknown.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nathanieljanowitz/bp-mexico-deepwater-horizon-oil?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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