[CPEO-BIF] Murphy Oil, Chalmette, Louisiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Murphy Oil cleanup dissatisfies some
Tests for soil toxins yield irregular results

By Paul Rioux
New Orleans Times-Picayune
July 20, 2006

Several months after oil seeped into their Chalmette home from a 
million-gallon spill caused by Hurricane Katrina, Peter and Sylvia 
Fontana reached a settlement with Murphy Oil USA rather than join a 
class-action lawsuit against the company.

"A lawsuit could take 10 years, and we don't know if we'll be around 
that long, because I'm 70 and my husband is 78," Sylvia Fontana said 
Wednesday morning, standing on the porch of her gutted home on Marietta 
Street. "We just wanted to move on with our lives as soon as possible."

But more than six months after the settlement, the couple says the 
company isn't living up to its end of the bargain.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/stbernard/index.ssf?/base/news-2/115338129695050.xml&coll=1
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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