Shocking: 18 Years on and Exxon Still Won't Pay $2.5 Billion for Valdez Oil Spill »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months agoThe Supreme Court's recent decision to hear ExxonMobil's reasons to void the $2.5 billion punitive award in the Exxon Valdez case hit the town of Cordova, Alaska, hard.
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dunkirk10 months ago
Amen. The people who lost their houses and health to the disasters and the environmental damage caused can't be the fault of the companies involved. If people hadn't moved there in the first place they would have been fine. The logic of the ultra right judges is going to make mankind shake their heads in disgust when looked at in the future.
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mesodude10 months ago
Isn't it interesting (hilarious, really) how the GOP's hatred towards "activist judges" suddenly evaporates when multi-billion dollar earning industries like the energy, tobacco and the pharmaceuticals (to name a few) come out on the losing end in court? A couple of years ago, disgusting Republicans fell all over themselves to subvert the will of a brain dead woman on life support (for the sole purpose of kissing evangelical @sses) but they couldn't care less about judges "legislating from the bench" when the legislation in question serves their interests or infringes upon the rights of others.
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allasam10 months ago
You should be aware that it is all part of a plan that is already in effect which allows corporations to control the world. The current White House admin is in complicity with this. Many news commentators are already voicing this, Lew Dobbs being one. NO corporation will pay anything without trying to sneak out of it.
These corporations are operating with impugnity to public concerns, Haliburton, Blackwater for example.
The public has only one small option in SOME cases; don't buy their products and try to put them out of business. In the case of huge corps like GE and EXXON and others, you can only take action yourselves and inflict the punative damages yourselves.
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Natureboy10 months ago
"it is all part of a plan that is already in effect which allows corporations to control the world."
They don't need a plan. They have the money, and that means they already control the world.
Do some googling, and see how many of the world's top 100 economies are now corporations rather than nations.
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Dionys10 months ago
I don't think it's ever shocking when a big corporation gets off from paying damages to devestated communities.
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Bruedaddy10 months ago
I REALLY get ******ed off here.
I was at the Annual meeting in Dallas and these ASS HOLES have plenty of cash.
they don't care about their own people so why should they do anything about their F* Ups.
It's SICK.
They could pay that without even sneezing. THEY HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY!!!
DON'T BUY A DAMN THING AT EXXONMOBIL
BUY YOUR GAS SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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Dicax_Maximus10 months ago
18 years & counting ??? This is sick.....
It would appear that poor old justice has secumbed to blindness, in it's old age.....
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hdthehn10 months ago
Average price of oil
2000 $29.54 (Bush/Cheney Elected)
2001 $23.39
2002 $23.78
2003 $28.42 (Bush/Cheney invades Iraq)
2004 $54.93
2005 $47.97
2006 $58.30
2007 $82.20 (Bush/Cheney continue being a dicks)
Avg price of oil under Bush: $43.56/barrel!!
Avg price of oil under Clinton: $18.32/barrel!!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Source US DOE/ economagic dot com and imperialoil dot com
ExonMobile can afford to pay - they are just greedy parasites
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NelsonR10 months ago
If you go back into the history of the Supreme Court over the length of its enactment you will find many shady ruling that were for Big Business. Today it's so obviously conservative leaning I rue the day they hear any case involving any liberal cause. Supreme Court justices are not only faulty of logic but they are imbued with decrepit thoughts disregarding our forefathers true meaning of what the constitution stood for. Interpreters (Supreme Court) are rearranging what was to what is now.
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awongscreen10 months ago
Nice to see all the comments here. At least there are people who know the truth about the roots of all evils this world is facing.
The history of mankind demonstrated that the worst thing that can happen is a coalition of business and government against the people. Any politicians that declare themselves business friendly are automatically deleted from my vote.
We know and witness the bad things about communism. (To be fair, those are dictators instead of communists) Since the fall of communism, we now face an even worst enemy - capitalism.
It is extremely difficult to fight these corporations as they already hold most of the world's wealth. Whatever, financial setback you inflicted on them, they have the means to charge it back to you with the help of the business friendly government. The only solution I can see is to elect a government who has the courage to impose regulations on capitalism and impose severe punishments if they do not act accordingly.
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Bruedaddy9 months, 3 weeks ago
Kinda like Electricity deregulation in Texas.
we create more electricity in this state than most in the union AND then we export much of it.
We also have the joy of paying some of the HIGHEST rates in the country.
DE-regulation is a failure and a myth.
What's wrong with this picture?
some thing MUST be regulated. Period.
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Bruedaddy9 months, 3 weeks ago
Kinda like Electricity deregulation in Texas.
we create more electricity in this state (Texas)than most in the union AND then we export much of it.
We also have the joy of paying some of the HIGHEST rates in the country.
DE-regulation is a failure and a myth.
What's wrong with this picture?
some thing MUST be regulated. Period.
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