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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10173

3 July 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Oettinger wants to impose oil spill insurance on oil companies

Brussels, 02/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with German daily Frankfurter Runschau on 2 July, Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger argues for an “oil spill insurance” to be taken out by oil companies against environmental catastrophes, such as the accident on the BP drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. “Any company working in oil exploration must demonstrate its solvency and the financial ability to be able to assume the costs of damage caused to nature and to people in the...

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