coffee trees plants and everything in the process of clearing the ground for them to start planting their coffee we sued them because they were participating in the eye to a conviction and destruction of my. property. so what did nine mine managers know about the military s role in driving people from the land. i can well imagine that they exerted pressure to move the resettlement and compensation process forward we would have known about it if the army had moved in and started threatening people like you both what s clear is that on the eve of the evictions everyone concerned matter up including to know why my managers. they were in that meeting when the well being of the of the government gave the evictees they are timid too they had three before eight a.m.
the only test, how many people participated. i m joined by bob hilliard who represents some of the families suing general motors. bob, i appreciate your time. i want to get your sense. your happy with the protocols that mr. feinberg has established? conservatively optimistic is a better description. you know, i negotiated the plan with mr. feinberg, and i hoped that some of the numbers would be higher. it s not patently unfair. some of my clients will fit well into the plan. it s going to really be a case by case issue depending on the facts of each client s injury or death. so let me lay out some of those facts. this compensation process does not allow for any punitive damages. no penalty against gm. this is only a fund to compensate for injury or loss. so what are you advising your clients? take the money that mr. feinberg
clean. still am people who suffered economic losses say the compensation process has been moving more slowly than the oil itself. the administrator of the $20 billion victims fund say the fund has approved some 300,000 claims and also processed 72% of those submitted but he also acknowledges it has paid out to victims less than $4 billion. let s put this into sper tech pif. 4.9 million barrels the total amount of oil scientists estimate leaked from april 209, enough to fill nine tankers, 275 hot air balloons or 312 olympic swimming pools, also 87 double-decker buses or even, take a look at this, staggering statistic, one-third of the great pyramid, equal to the amount of water that passes over the niagara falls every seven minutes. those images really do put it
gallons day just from this spot alone. patches of thick oil like this ar dwinlding and in this mess, a fledgling, reminiscent of this seari ining image in join. 23 hoin oil birds have been far dead, faw fewer than expect. look at this marina when diane sawyer sailed just after the spill, it was deserted, now fisher mn and a few smiles have returned. of 30,000 fish samples taken not one as tested positive for oil. nature may be healing but for the fishermen, the economic landscape remains blighted. i don t believe a word you said. she asked for over $100,000 from compensation czar ken feinberg. he gave me a $600 check. i m a commercial fisherman and he insulted me. compensation process is still years way from being complete. about 75,000 families and
has america degenerated into a venezuelan-style country where the leader picks somebody to hand out 20 billion dollars and we think it is not corrupt? this is outside the law. the congress could create and the president could sign a bill to have some kind of compensation process. to have it handled by press release, this the kind of stuff that is going to convince every major business in the world to avoid the united states. to invest outside the united states because our political class seems to have loss any sense of balance and any sense of the rule of law. sean: technically for the a second on the law and stay away from the politics. we have a law the oil pollution act of 1990 it specifically says that the company responsible will be responsible and will have liability for all removal costs. then they have a cap of 5 million unless there s some