The federal government and the Gulf Coast states have reached a tentative deal with the British oil company BP for it to pay about $18.7 billion, the largest environmental settlement in American history, to compensate for damages from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, federal, state and company officials said Thursday.
The premier’s recent announcement committing up to $21 million for ferry restoration is welcome news for Yarmouth, South West Nova, and tourism businesses across the province. It is also encouraging to see that even the ever stubborn Darrell can crack from political pressure and do an about-face on a position in which he has been entrenched for three years.