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Originally Posted by RWebb
not allowed under some env'l laws - they can still go after individuals, board, officers, etc.
BTW - I don't know anything about the Jones Act, but if it is illegal, then the Govt. cannot do it. Only after Congress passed another modificiation to the Jones Act could the govt. do anything.
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Perhaps you are correct about the difficulty of avoiding penalty of environmental laws but keep in mind that the legal system can drag things out for entended periods of time. I was surprised to hear just recently that Union Carbide managers were just given jail sentences for the Bhopal disaster and yes, they will be appealing. That occurred in 1984. You might say, poor comparison because of the dramatic difference in lose of life but any life lost is too many. This BP spill will far exceed Bhopal in $$ for clean-up and time for the environment to recover.
I can appreciate that a court case in India is handled much differently than in the US but it also seems that the bigger the case and more publicity it gets the longer the court dealings and negotiated settlements.
The lawyers will make a killing on this for years to come.