Not to mention, if they didnt think they were to be held liable for it, they wouldnt be coming out with press releases today saying the following:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63T2VX20100430
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BP Plc will clean up an oil spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico and compensate those affected, its chief executive said, accepting that the disaster could hit plans to open new areas off the U.S. coast to drilling.
"We are taking full responsibility for the spill and we will clean it up and where people can present legitimate claims for damages we will honor them. We are going to be very, very aggressive in all of that," Tony Hayward told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
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