I presume PFOS is talking about the original $5billion punitive settlement that the USSC gutted last summer.
Are we supposed to feel bad about this? Is this supposed to be some consolation for what happened? I kinda equate this someone driving drunk and killing a human, then making sure the funeral bills are paid. It means little after the fact.
Where and when did you actually vacation at? Was it in the area that was actually effected? Did you get a chance to get off the cruise ship to verify for yourself the amount of oil that still soils the beach just below the surface?
Well of course, because now the damage is done, and further washing of rocks doesnt do as much as when it is easy to skim. What is a more important factor in the whole scenario now, is that it is to expensive to finish the job.
Yeah great, they saved 37 sea otters, they killed at least 3,000. And the species has not recovered to date.
Yeah, and most werent paid that much, the fisherman who watched thier livelihood vanish before thier eyes, were the first responders and had to make up the lost revenue, and do whatever they could to help the situation.
To cover for the immediate damages that occurred. The herring fishery has never recovered, nor has the marine mammal activities. Salmon is generally doing alright for now, but the run has never been as strong as the days before the spill.
Woopteedoo! I am so far very unimpressed with your defense of Exxon. One fifth of thier revenue, great considering that a few thousand fisherman never cast a net the day after Exxon Valdez happened. One fifth of revenue for a year, for a major corporation means squat to me, when a generation of permit holders were ruined, not 1/5 for a year, but %100 for 20 years now.
Not sure they really learned from thier mistakes, because less than a year ago they wanted to remove the escort tug systems that were put in place back in 89 after the spill. As for not another incident happening? Well Ill grant you that Exxon hasnt had a drunken skipper leave an utterly unqualified cabin boy in charge to run a massive ship onto a charted reef. Yes you are right that hasnt happened. But there have been a few other land based oil spills in Alaska, mostly from lack of maintenance on feeder pipelines.
Oh yeah? Are you sure they were Alaskans? Where abouts in Alaska was this? What did you ask them?
Praised Exxon? Now, I dont claim to know everyone in Alaska, there are a few places I havent been to. But I am born and raised here and I gotta tell you, I havent heard in my entire life 10 people praise exxon for thier actions, in the last 20 years. For you to find 2-3x that amount on a two week vacation, amazes me. Please do tell me in what communities I can find such an outpouring of exxon support.
