Mediator takes reins on gulf oil spill claims
Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 02:35
in Earth & Climate
'No more beating up on BP,' Kenneth Feinberg tells claimants. Next week, he will take over from the oil giant the $20-billion fund for spill compensation claims.Wayde Bonvillain, who makes his living selling Louisiana's tender softshell crabs, said Wednesday that his problem is he doesn't know yet how broke he is. How can he know, when crabs make their home thousands of feet down on the ocean floor, and now people are saying there's spilled oil on the bottom of the sea?