COLUMN: Windfall or shortfall: Cookie cutter compensation for BP spill

“One size fits all” doesn't always fit. A good example is the $25,000 settlement that was offered to, and accepted, by many victims of the BP oil spill

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COLUMN: Windfall or shortfall: Cookie cutter compensation for BP spill

Ottawa to auction exploration rights in massive area in the North

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Plans to drill in the area were put on hold after the BP spill

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Oil spill fund audit finds underpayments of $64 million

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An audit of the $20 billion (12.5 billion pounds) fund for paying victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill found “significant errors” that led to about 7,300 claimants who were underpaid receiving an extra $64 million, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. The Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) was set up to compensate fishermen, hotel owners, property owners …

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UPDATE 1-Oil spill fund audit finds underpayments of $64 mln

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(Adds details from audit, background) WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) – An audit of the $20 billionfund for paying victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spillfound “significant errors” that led …

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Green Mountain Margin Call Latest Sign Market Is Stuck in 1929

The Green Mountain chairman stock scandal is part of a long and controversial line of executives using company stock as collateral for personal investments.

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Green Mountain Margin Call Latest Sign Market Is Stuck in 1929

2 years later: What's latest on Gulf oil spill?

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Two years have passed since the April 20, 2010, blowout of BP's Macondo well triggered an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and spawning the nation's worst offshore oil spill.

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