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MENAFN - Qatar News Agency - 05/03/2012

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(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) The US government has announced Sunday that it will continue to pursue its case against British Petroleum (BP) over the Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill.

According to (BBC) news, the company had reached a 7.8 billion deal on Friday. However, the US Department of Justice deemed the deal incomplete because it did not address "significant damages" to the environment after the Gulf of Mexico spill.

The deal will benefit some 100,000 fishermen, local residents and clean-up workers who have been harmed by the spill. BP says that the money is expected to come from a 20 billion compensation fund set aside in the past.

"While we are pleased that BP may be stepping up to address harms to individual plaintiffs, this by no means fully addresses its responsibility for the harms it has caused," the Department of Justice said.

The company still faces other legal claims and has not admitted liability.

The April 2010 explosion left 11 workers dead and leaked 4 million barrels of oil.

State governments around the affected area and drilling firms are also expected to continue legal action against BP.

 






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