Source: Zenit
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, JUNE 15, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the anti-poverty program of the U.S. bishops, is giving $300,000 in grants to aid victims of the recent Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulted from an April 20 well blowout on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling platform that killed 11 and injured 17 others.
The oil company BP has been fingered as being primarily responsible for what has become the largest spill in U.S. history, though the multinational corporation objects to this accusation.
It is estimated that the fishing industry will lose some $2.5 billion due to the disaster.
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