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title: ""When a horrible accident created a deadly oil platform explosion in…"
date: 2016-08-08
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships updated his status.
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# "When a horrible accident created a deadly oil platform explosion in…

*August 8, 2016 · Facebook*

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\"When a horrible accident created a deadly oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, privately-owned British Petroleum immediately created a \$20 billion fund that it knew it would need for payment of damages. In contrast, when the Mexican government creates far worse environmental and human disasters in the Gulf of Mexico it routinely does nothing by claiming "sovereign immunity." In the first five months of 2015 alone Pemex, the Mexican nationalized oil company, caused three catastrophic oil rig explosions that resulted in several deaths, numerous injuries to platform workers, and air and water pollution. The Mexican government incredibly claimed that there were no oil spills, which was quickly proven to be a lie by satellite images of a three-mile-long oil slick provided by Greenpeace Mexico.\"\
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