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Article

20 Oct 2010

Author:
David A. Fahrenthold & Kimberly Kindy, Washington Post

Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil [USA]

The oil has mostly disappeared. And in southern Louisiana, things are finally looking normal...six months after the largest oil spill in U.S. history...Today, it is BP's money, not its oil, that is most visibly altering the Gulf Coast. The company has been trying - on federal orders - to protect...the way of life there. But BP's waterfall of cash has changed people's lives profoundly...[S]imply paying shrimpers doesn't re-create the economy that was built around them. The new money, like a swollen river, is carving new channels and leaving old ones dry...In Plaquemines Parish, La., sheriff's deputies have been called to bars to respond to shoving matches, sparked because one man came out ahead this summer and the other didn't...