BP will pay $ 500 million for oil spill .

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The British oil giant has pledged up to $ 500 million research program, aiming to assess the environmental consequences of oil spill from the wreck of a platform that operated in the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil giant BP pledged on Monday to spend up to $ 500 million research program, aiming to assess the environmental consequences of oil spill from the wreck of a platform that operated in the Gulf of Mexico.
"BP is committed to doing everything he could to lessen the impact of this tragic incident on residents and environment of the Gulf of Mexico" and "we must make every effort to measure this impact, "explained in a statement Director General of the oil group, Tony Hayward.
The group said the research program that will finance a period of 10 years, a committee would be headed by "independent", which will be responsible for allocating funds, assigning work to teams of specialists marine biology and oceanography. To start this program of study, a first award, for an undisclosed sum, will be paid to the State University of Louisiana, according to BP.

The government increased the tone:
This announcement comes as the U.S. government raises his voice against the oil group. More than a month after the start of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the latest attempt by the British group to try to plug the leak in 1600 meters below sea level does not work.
Suddenly, the U.S. government begins to change tone, even threatening the group he considers to be legally responsible for this disaster. "I do not doubt the fact that BP is doing all it can to resolve the problem, because it represents an existential crisis for one of the largest companies in the world. Do I think they know exactly what they do? Not totally, "said Ken Salazar, U.S. Secretary for Home Affairs."
If not addressed quickly, BP could find itself forced to pay billions of dollars for cleanup and compensation. Every day, nearly 800,000 liters of crude oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico since the explosion of a platform operated by BP, on April 20 last.

BP prepares new attempts:
After failed attempts at plugging and diking done to date, BP's engineers are preparing a draft of "choking up" ("top kill), consisting of injecting into the well drilling fluid heavy to try to plug the leaks in an operation scheduled to begin Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning, said Bob Dudley, CEO of BP, Sunday on CNN.
Many experts believe that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has already eclipsed that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989, the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. This accident had spilled 41 million gallons of crude.
Saturday in his weekly radio address on the internet, Barack Obama has demanded that future offshore oil drilling are subject to safeguards to prevent the recurrence of similar disasters.
He also kept the pressure on the oil company, citing a "breach of responsibility". "First and foremost, what led to this disaster is a failure of responsibility on the part of BP and perhaps others, including Transocean and Halliburton," he said, citing other companies involved in the operations of Deepwater Horizon, the platform which the accident is causing the ecological catastrophe.