Photo credit: Getty Images, GULFPORT, MS - JULY 1- An Oil cleanup worker uses a shovel to remove thick oil that washed ashore

An interview with Ken Feinberg, the man in charge of the $20 billion fund for the victims for the BP oil spill and how it will work on the Charlie Rose show. Some call him the Oil Claims Czar, but Feinberg came from being a high-profile Washington lawyer to head of two large victim- compensation funds — Sept. 11 and Virginia Tech. The Sept. 11 fund distributed nearly $7 billion to more than 5,000 victims and families of victims of 9/11. So how does one decide who should get how much money out of the $20 billion?

In this video Feinberg also explains why money could never be enough to compensate some of those who lost everything in BP’s oil gusher in the Gulf and how he has to come up with a dollar amount for them anyway.

For more news on BP’s oil gusher and the ecocide in the Gulf click on some of these links.

Boycott BP? That’s easier said than done
Consumers who want to show their outrage over the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will find that the company is deeply rooted in the U.S. economy. via latimes.com

More on Feinberg: Spill’s $20B Man Will Feel Others’ Pain, Follow Law via npr.org

Oil “super skimmer” arrives in Gulf of Mexico
A massive ship converted into a “super skimmer” has arrived in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to assist with cleanup of the BP oil spill via reuters.com

Gulf oil cleanup resumes, new drilling rules awaited
Washington was preparing a revised offshore oil drilling moratorium and cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico returned to normal on Friday after hurricane Alex passed through the region without doing major damage. via reuters.com

It’s not a “spill” if you can see it from orbit!: Another deserved semantics debate over what this “spill” is called, some possible solutions for our energy problems and some good points via apollopartners.ca

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