MOBILE, Ala. — Six boat owners who participated in BP’s Vessels of Opportunity program after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have sued the company, accusing BP of failing to pay them for days when their ...
MOBILE, Ala. (CN) - Nearly 100 Gulf Coast boat owners who let BP hire their ships for its "Vessels of Opportunity" oil spill cleanup say BP's program was a corrupt conspiracy that left "thousands of ...
NEW ORLEANS (CN) – BP “specifically demanded” that the companies overseeing its Vessels of Opportunity oil spill clean-up program not hire Vietnamese- and Cambodian-Americans, a class estimated at ...
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. -- "Vessels of Opportunity," a program created by BP PLC to provide jobs for out-of-work fishermen, is paying those with boats 65 feet or larger $3,000 a day to stand by. To see ...
John Maas spent years buying and outfitting a 17-foot aluminum boat called the Superskiff 1 so he could take customers fishing for sea trout and flounder in the Gulf of Mexico. But before the ...
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Rufus Young is hoping for a chance to clean the Gulf where he's earned his living fishing. The pay would help out, too. "He knows these waters like the back of his hand," said his ...
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