{"id":20412,"date":"2010-06-17T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/oil_spill_david_cameron_confronts_barack_obama_in_battle_to_protect_bp\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:00:51","slug":"oil_spill_david_cameron_confronts_barack_obama_in_battle_to_protect_bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20412","title":{"rendered":"Oil spill: David Cameron confronts Barack Obama in battle to protect BP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister called for the company to be protected from excessive compensation claims as President Barack Obama made it agree to potentially unlimited damages.<\/p>\n<p>BP provisionally agreed the biggest compensation payment in corporate history, setting up a fund worth at least \u00c2\u00a313.5 billion to cover the damage caused by its leaking oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>But the US president last night made it clear that BP&#8217;s payments could be just the start, warning that the company could still face lawsuits from individuals and American states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/energy\/oilandgas\/7834242\/Oil-spill-David-Cameron-confronts-Barack-Obama-in-battle-to-protect-BP.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister called for the company to be protected from excessive compensation claims as President Barack Obama made it agree to potentially unlimited damages. BP provisionally agreed the biggest compensation payment in corporate history, setting up a fund worth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20412\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,410,589,149,140,199,144,616,151,667,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-the-2010-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-england-uk","category-foreign-relations","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}