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Lawsuits allege deadly 2021 Texas blackouts were an inside job
But the most important recent case resulted in a verdict last September, when an Oklahoma federal court found that during Winter Storm Uri, BP had breached its contract to deliver gas to Arkansas Oklahoma Gas (AOG).
While BP blamed this failure on “force majeure,” or an act of God, the federal judge ordered it to pay back $18 million to AOG — finding that BP hadn’t done enough to guarantee the gas supply for which it had been paid. The court found that BP’s plea of an act of God, in turn, forced AOG to scramble to buy gas on the open market as prices soared during the winter storm — money that the judge ordered BP to reimburse.
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In his adopted hometown of Houston, power was out for one to two weeks, “depending on the area, and it didn’t make any sense,” he said. He pointed out that unlike in hurricanes like Rita, Ike or Beryl, “no trees had fallen on the power lines,” and argued that the idea of frozen gas pipes didn’t hold water.
A 2-inch feeder pipeline, he argued, might freeze. But a 12-, or 24-, or a 42- inch gaspipe, he argued, “is like the ocean. There’s too much water. The big gas lines do not freeze, and it’s not possible for [underground] storage to freeze. It’s too big.”
CirclesX’s business model, the lawsuit argues, allowed company officials to uncover a “swindle.” The company’s business is built on pulling publicly available but inscrutable online data showing the movements of gas across the nation’s pipeline and turning it into a usable dataset.
