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Not sure what you are basing that off of, but Exxon actually paid 1.28 billion dollars to clean it up. I do not live in Alaska, however I have vacationed their, and was amazed that you almost can't tell anything happened. Gary Shigenaka head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency says allowing nature to clean up the rest on it's own is better for the enviroment.http://www.mindfully.org/Water/Valdez-Cleanup-Lessons22nov02.htm Some examples of what Exxon did to make up for it's mistake: Each Sea Otter saved would cost Exxon forty thousand dollars after feeding them lobster and crayfish that was flown in every day. The boats used in the cleanup were chartered for as much as eight thousand dollars a day. Fishermen were given seventy-five million dollars to make up for lost fishing revenues. Exxon provided villages along shorelines with food because hunting and fishing had been interrupted. The cost of this cleanup was equivalent to one fifth of Exxon's revenue for the year. (Information taken from Exxon's financial break down of the clean up.)Not only did Exxon clean up their mess, but they have put billions of dollars into making sure that this doesn't happen again. It's been a little over 20 years and not another incident. You learn from your mistakes!Bunz, I talked with probably 20-30 people during my two weeks in Alaska, and not a one mentioned ongoing problems. In fact many of them praised Exxon for what they did with the clean up and others sited that nature will finish up the clean up better than us.
Not sure what you are basing that off of, but Exxon actually paid 1.28 billion dollars to clean it up. I do not live in Alaska, however I have vacationed their, and was amazed that you almost can't tell anything happened. Gary Shigenaka head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency says allowing nature to clean up the rest on it's own is better for the enviroment.
http://www.mindfully.org/Water/Valdez-Cleanup-Lessons22nov02.htm
Some examples of what Exxon did to make up for it's mistake: Each Sea Otter saved would cost Exxon forty thousand dollars after feeding them lobster and crayfish that was flown in every day. The boats used in the cleanup were chartered for as much as eight thousand dollars a day. Fishermen were given seventy-five million dollars to make up for lost fishing revenues. Exxon provided villages along shorelines with food because hunting and fishing had been interrupted. The cost of this cleanup was equivalent to one fifth of Exxon's revenue for the year. (Information taken from Exxon's financial break down of the clean up.)
Not only did Exxon clean up their mess, but they have put billions of dollars into making sure that this doesn't happen again. It's been a little over 20 years and not another incident. You learn from your mistakes!
Bunz, I talked with probably 20-30 people during my two weeks in Alaska, and not a one mentioned ongoing problems. In fact many of them praised Exxon for what they did with the clean up and others sited that nature will finish up the clean up better than us.
