For Evelio Jiménez, the damage from the BP oil spill of 2010 isn’t theoretical. He’s one of the thousands of fishermen along the six Mexican Gulf Coast states who said in a lawsuit that the oil spill destroyed their way of life.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nathanieljanowitz/bp-mexico-deepwater-horizon-oil?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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Even after taking action, it was relatively indecisive. Mexico’s government appears to have ignored evidence that could have been used to bolster its case against BP.
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The slow response was not the case in the US. The US government sprang into action after the explosion. A little over a month after, then-president Barack Obama had created an independent commission to investigate the causes of the oil spill.
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Within eight months, the commission determined that the explosion and spill were the consequences of a series of mistakes and omissions made by BP, and the companies it contracted.
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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.
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Back in Mexico, the government handed BP a lucrative contract that includes five oil-drilling sites, two natural gas pipeline contracts, and a plan to build 1,500 BP-branded gas stations.
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People like Jiménez can only watch as BP invests in Mexico. He spoke of his shock at seeing a gas station with a big BP sunflower sign, “calmly working, as if they hadn’t done anything here.”pic.twitter.com/cuBRU0gq8R
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Edel Jiménez, Evelio’s older brother, solemnly adds: “We’re forgotten by the rulers, the politicians, the presidents. We just exist now. We lived from fishing. But now that’s over.”https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nathanieljanowitz/bp-mexico-deepwater-horizon-oil?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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