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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: June 11, 2015, 8:55 pm
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[b]A Magical Mystery Tour of American Austerity Politics [/b]
Posted on Jun 10, 2015
By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch
SNIPPET:
[quote] That Marathon paid residents to evacuate their homes in
this predominantly white section of town, while refusing to do
the same in the predominantly African American 48217, which sits
closer to the refinery, strikes neither Lockridge and Parker nor
their neighbors as a coincidence.
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Agelbert NOTE: Corporate rule is Empathy Deficit behavior on
STEROIDS.
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[quote]The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do
in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in
Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not
to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public
information.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the
truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the
public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more
power.
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict
puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are
undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the
definition to include only those who in their search for money
and power are ruthless and deceitful. [/quote]
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: August 7, 2015, 10:18 pm
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Oil Spills Whose Fault are They Anyway? ???
Posted on June 13, 2015 by Timothy Jacobs
By: Emily Williams
“It’s not your fault.”
In the movie Goodwill Hunting, Robin Williams repeats this line
over and over to Matt Damon, helping him accept that the trauma
he faced, in fact, wasn’t his fault.
I can’t help that that mantra crosses my mind every time I’m
confronted with anther exploding oil train or of a child
diagnosed with cancer next to a power plant. “It’s not your
fault.”
Two weeks ago, a pipeline that was pumping crude oil from
off-shore platforms to onshore facilities ruptured in Santa
Barbara County, spilling over 100,000 gallons of crude oil onto
the coastline and into the sea. The slick currently spans over
10 miles of previously pristine coastline. The only silver
lining is that the spill didn’t occur in a more populated area.
Yet I am completely dependent on fossil fuels. A shameless
alliance of government, big oil, and king coal has ensured that
our infrastructure depends entirely upon coal, oil, and natural
gas. These fuels heat our homes, power our cars, produce our
plastics, and power the very computer I wrote this on.
But just because we are currently reliant on something doesn’t
mean we should continue to be. Our society used to rely on DDT
to protect our crops from pests. Yet once it was proven how
toxic the substance was, we banned it, turning to alternatives.
We now know that fossil fuel extraction and combustion is more
toxic to our communities and environment than DDT. When we turn
on our fossil-fuel powered light, we cast an ugly shadow.
At the other end of those power lines are horrendous human
rights violations and irreversible environmental degradation.
This spill is not an isolated incident. Exploding oil trains,
oil spills, fracking-induced earthquakes, and coal slurry
mud-slides have become a staple of nighttime news.
Coal alone is estimated to have over $300 billion[1]in external
costs; that is $300 billion worth of costs that the companies
force onto taxpayers and the environment. In three weeks this
year, three oil trains derailed and exploded, and in the case of
the West Virginia exploding train, the fire that engulfed 19
rail cars burned for three days[2].
Over 25 million Americans live within the “blast zone” along oil
train routes[3]. But the fossil fuel assault has a global front
as well—climate change. According to the Climate Vulnerability
Monitor, already 400,000 people die per year as a result of
climate change[4]. While this number is already too high, future
generations can expect a much higher figure.
These impacts are not evenly distributed to those who are the
most responsible for emissions. Fossil fuel extraction and
combustion occurs mostly in or near communities of low
socio-economic status–primarily communities of color. These
communities are plagued with elevated rates of asthma,
cardiovascular illness, and cancer, and have very little
political power to fight the infrastructure. However, on the few
occasions when this happens next door to the companies’ CEOs,
suddenly there is an uproar. When a company wanted to install a
fracking water tower on the land of Rex Tillerson—the CEO of
Exxon Mobil—he fought it. Turns out Rex is only interested in
fracking in other peoples’ back yards.
No matter our political inclinations, we all have to accept that
these fuels are undermining the health, economy, and prosperity
of our society.
So what’s the solution? Contrary to popular belief, we have the
alternatives to actually transition away from fossil fuels and
power our economy. Improving energy efficiency in buildings can
cut 10% of emissions on its own[5]. Solar and wind are not only
technically viable alternative fuels, but also financially
feasible[6]. Germany, a country that lies at the same latitude
as Alaska, and is covered in clouds for the majority of the
year, already gets 30% of its energy from renewable sources[7].
It’s not our fault…entirely. The American public is being
misled. While mainstream media debates are torn between the
“skeptic” and scientist, alluding to the jury still being out,
97% of all climate scientists are in consensus that climate
change is happening, the risk is great, and humans are the cause
of it. How can this be? As it turns out, the fossil fuel
industry pays big time for media campaigns to spread doubt and
green-wash their businesses.
This “dark money” is extremely hard to trace, but what is known
is that 140 fossil-fuel-financed foundations donated over $550
million to climate change denial campaigns[8]. For a more
specific look, BP invests heavily in their PR campaign to recast
themselves as “Beyond Petroleum”, while the company only
invested $9 billion over the last decade in renewable technology
development, compared to the $341 billion they spent in the same
period on unconventional methods, such as fracking[9]. Comparing
those figures to the $257 billion that was invested globally in
2011 in renewables, $9 is barely a drop in the ocean[10]. To top
it all off, according to the IMF, the fossil fuel industry as a
whole receives $10 million in subsidies per minute, accumulating
to over $5 trillion annually.
In 1961, the Soviet Union announced it would send a man to the
moon. Flexing its national muscle, the United States in a mere
eight years went from zero to moon landing. Back on Earth, in
that very same year, an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara
suffered a blow-out and spewed over 3 million gallons of oil
into the channel.
If the United States could so quickly develop the technology,
political will, and finance to land a man on the moon, then we
can transition to a low-carbon economy. This feat will require
our society to rethink our priorities. We’ll need to stop
subsidizing the industry that actively blocks alternatives and
start holding the industry accountable. The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change stated in their most recent report that
to truly tackle the issue of climate change, we need investment
to spur the renewable energy revolution. We could invest that
annual $5 trillion of subsidies to finance research on renewable
energy technology, rather than empowering an industry whose
business model continues to fight the transition to a low-carbon
economy.
It’s not our fault. We haven’t been given the opportunity to own
our own power, to choose our own energy provider, or to be
represented by a politician who hasn’t been bought out. [b]But
it will be our fault if we remain comfortably blind to the mass
profiting from what can only be called institutionalized
insanity.
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References
[1]External Costs of Energy
[2]
HTML http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141208/video-boom-north-americas-explosive-oil-rail-problem
[3]
HTML http://explosive-crude-by-rail.org/
[4]
HTML http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/27/climate-change-kills-400-000-a-year-new-report-reveals.html
[5]
HTML http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jun/08/energy-efficiency-carbon-savings
[6]
HTML http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-age-of-wind-and-solar-is-closer-than-you-think/
[7]
HTML http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de
[8]
HTML https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/
[9]
HTML http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-05-10/big-oils-big-in-biofuels
[10]
HTML http://fs-unep-centre.org/publications/global-trends-renewable-energy-investment-2012
HTML http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/oil-spills-whose-fault-are-they-anyway/
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: August 8, 2015, 5:33 pm
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[quote]“They did everything they were supposed to do. They
followed the rules,” Graham said in an interview. “They went
through all the proper procedures.”
But after their celebrations on the night of Nov. 4, 2014,
Denton residents woke up to the reality of Texas politics: the
oil and gas industry had filed lawsuits against the measure and
state lawmakers promptly announced they would overturn the
democratically passed ban in Denton and ensure no other
jurisdiction would pursue similar restrictions.
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‘Don’t Frack With Denton’
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: August 11, 2015, 2:37 pm
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10 Years Later: Fracking and the Halliburton Loophole
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Wenonah Hauter | August 11, 2015 1:04 pm
This past Saturday, marked a notable 10th anniversary. But it
was certainly nothing to celebrate. Ten years ago, President
George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The giant
energy bill included massive giveaways for the fossil fuel,
nuclear and ethanol industries and provided only token
incentives for renewables and improved energy efficiency. But
the most infamous piece of the law was what is now commonly
known as the “Halliburton Loophole,” an egregious regulatory
exemption that ushered in the disastrous era of widespread oil
and gas fracking that currently grips our nation.
[quote]
Fracking—the extreme oil and gas extraction method that involves
blasting millions of gallons of water mixed with toxic chemicals
underground at enormous pressures to break apart subterranean
rock—has exploded in the last decade. More than 270,000 wells
have been fracked in 25 states throughout the nation. More than
10 million Americans live within a mile of a fracking site. This
means that 10 million Americans—and truly many more—have been
placed directly in harm’s way. Hundreds of peer-reviewed studies
have connected fracking to serious human health effects,
including cancer, asthma and birth defects.[/quote]
For this we can thank the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the law
that holds the Halliburton Loophole. Named after Dick Cheney and
the notorious corporation he led before becoming vice president,
the law (championed by Cheney and disgraced Enron founder
Kenneth Lay, among others) [b]explicitly exempted fracking
operations from key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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These
exemptions from one of America’s most fundamental environmental
protection laws provided the oil and gas industry the immunity
it required to develop a highly polluting process on a grand
national scale.
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One of the most troubling repercussions is how fracking
companies hide the contents of their toxic water and chemical
solutions pumped into the ground. Contamination of underground
drinking water sources from fracking fluids is a glaring threat
to public health and safety. Yet even doctors responding to
fracking-related health complaints can’t access data on what
particular chemicals their patients may have been exposed to.
But the Halliburton Loophole wasn’t the only fracking enabler in
the Energy Policy Act. The act granted the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) sweeping new authority to supersede
state and local decision-making with regard to the citing of
fracked gas pipelines and infrastructure. It also shifted to
FERC industry oversight and compliance responsibility for the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, another key law. This
was akin to putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
As it stands, FERC is entirely unaccountable to public will. It
is unaccountable to Congress and even the White House.
Commissioners are appointed to five-year terms and can do as
they please. Until a law reigning in FERC is passed, the
commission will continue to act as a rubber-stamp for the fossil
fuel industry.
Additionally, the Energy Policy Act repealed an important
anti-monopoly law, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935 (PUHCA). PUHCA safeguarded consumers from the overreach of
the oil and gas industry and banks that did business with those
companies. It prevented the formation of giant state and
regional energy cartels that could manipulate energy costs,
engage in profiteering and exert undue influence over political
debate. The Energy Policy Act transferred most of this oversight
to FERC. Since then, the largest American energy companies have
grown significantly more powerful and spent almost a billion
dollars on federal lobbying, according to OpenSecrets.org.
The 10th anniversary of the Energy Policy Act is indeed a sad
occasion, but it provides us with a ripe opportunity to
reexamine our nation’s disastrous policy of doubling-down on
fossil fuels over the last decade, thanks to the extreme process
of fracking. For the sake of countless Americans who are
currently suffering health effects caused by fracking and the
countless more who will suffer in the future, we must
immediately curtail our dependence on oil and gas and turn
decisively toward a truly clean, renewable energy future.
HTML http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/11/halliburton-loophole-fracking/
Agelbert NOTE: As those of you that still possess a modicum of
reading comprehension will understand, the fossil fuel industry
has ALWAYS been involved in DEGRADING OUR DEMOCRACY while they
REFUSE to admit they are degrading the biosphere along the way.
A portion of the American populace, that doesn't want to face
that fascist reality, continues to rationalize our "need" for
this fossil fuel burning planetary plague with BALONEY about
civilization, high energy density or, for those Empathy Deficit
Disordered quislings that work for the planet polluters, having
to pay for student loans or put food on the table.
Human society has always had Empathy Deficit Disordered people
totally devoid of foresight. But only with the advent of the
Industrial Revolution did these cause and effect challenged
greedballs succeed in running our society. The fossil fuel
industry actually believes it has a "you need us" gun to our
heads. They've got power and they've got a gun. Although they
are too blind, too greedy or just too stupid to see it, that gun
has already gone off in their faces, as well as ours.
Let us hope that those of us that are still sane prevail.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: August 26, 2015, 6:11 pm
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Truth from Thom Hartmann
[quote]A business can operate at a profit, a break-even, or a
loss. If the business is a sole proprietorship or a partnership
(owned by one or a few people) and it loses more money than its
assets are worth, the owners and the investors are personally
responsible for the debts, which may exceed the amount they
originally invested. A small-business owner could put up $10,000
of her own money to start a company, have it fail with $50,000
in debts, and be personally responsible for paying off that debt
out of her own pocket.
But let's say you invest $10,000 in a limited-liability
corporation, and the corporation runs up $50,000 in debts and
then defaults on those debts. You would lose only your initial
$10,000 investment. The remaining $40,000 wouldn't be your
concern because the amount of your investment is the "limit of
your liability," even if the corporation goes bankrupt, defaults
in any other way, or causes millions of dollars in damage to the
environment or even the deaths of people.
Who foots the bill? The creditors-the people to whom the
corporation owes money-or the community that was devastated. The
company took the goods or services from them, didn't pay, and
leaves them with the bill, exactly as if you had put in a week's
work and not gotten paid for it. Or it wreaks havoc and death
and then simply shuts down, as so many asbestos companies have
done recently.[/quote]
"Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became People."
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By: AGelbert Date: September 22, 2015, 8:18 pm
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Sign Now: Prosecute Exxon For Deliberate Climate Denial[/center]
Prosecute Exxon: Newly revealed documents show that Exxon’s own
scientists were aware of and studying the dangerous impacts of
greenhouse gases in the 1970s and 1980s -- until Exxon’s
leadership decided to shut down the research and promote climate
denial instead, in order to protect the company’s unfathomably
large profits.
The United States Department of Justice has the power to
prosecute Exxon’s deliberate deception under the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act - just as the
DOJ did to the tobacco industry for knowingly lying about the
dangers of cigarette smoking.
Source: "Exxon: The Road Not Taken," InsideClimate News.
Tell U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch:
Launch a RICO prosecution of Exxon and its fellow fossil-fuel
companies for deliberate and malicious climate deception.
HTML http://www.climatehawksvote.com/prosecute_exxon
[quote]The headline says it all: “Exxon's Own Research Confirmed
Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.”
The Pulitzer-winning InsideClimate News is running a blockbuster
series with incontrovertible evidence -- pulled from Exxon’s own
archives -- that the oil giant’s top executives were warned of
possible catastrophe from greenhouse pollution, then led efforts
to block solutions. Documents show that Exxon’s own scientists
were aware of and studying the dangerous impacts of greenhouse
gases in the 1970s and 1980s -- until Exxon’s leadership decided
to shut down the research and promote climate denial instead, in
order to protect the company’s unfathomably large profits.
We’ve known for years that the oil industry finances the
climate-denial network of politicians, think tanks, and
right-wing media in order to protect their gargantuan profits,
but now we have sufficient evidence of deliberate deceit to make
a federal investigation happen.
Tell the DOJ: Prosecute Exxon's deliberate climate denial.
The United States Department of Justice has the power to
prosecute Exxon’s deliberate deception under the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act - just as DOJ
sued the tobacco industry for knowingly lying about the dangers
of cigarette smoking.
Even before these smoking-gun documents were released, climate
hawks have been making calls for a RICO investigation of
fossil-fueled climate denial:
•Three weeks ago, a group of top climate scientists called for
an investigation, saying, “it is imperative that these misdeeds
be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can
get on with the critically important business of finding
effective ways to restabilize the Earth's climate, before even
more lasting damage is done.”
•Months earlier, climate hawk Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI),
a former state Attorney General, called for a RICO investigation
of Big Oil, saying, “I don’t know whether the fossil fuel
industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering
activity as the tobacco industry. We don’t have enough
information to make that conclusion. Perhaps it’s all smoke and
no fire. But there’s an awful lot of smoke.”
Thanks to the reporters at InsideClimate News, now we have
smoking-gun documents found in public archives. And there’s
certain to be more. It’s up to us to demand the U.S. government
immediately launch an investigation that will lead to
prosecution of Exxon’s deliberate and deadly climate denial.
Please add your voice to tell U.S. Attorney General Loretta
Lynch:
“Launch a RICO prosecution of Exxon and its fellow fossil-fuel
companies for deliberate and malicious climate deception.”
Your fellow climate hawk,
Brad Johnson
Climate Hawks Vote Political Director
References:
“Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global
Warming Decades Ago,” InsideClimate News, September 16, 2015
HTML http://insideclimatenews.org/news/15092015/Exxons-own-research-confirmed-fossil-fuels-role-in-global-warming
Climate scientists’ letter to President Obama, Attorney General
Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren, September 1, 2015
HTML http://www.iges.org/letter/LetterPresidentAG.pdf
“The fossil-fuel industry’s campaign to mislead the American
people,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Washington Post, May 29, 2015
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-campaign-to-mislead-the-american-people/2015/05/29/04a2c448-0574-11e5-8bda-c7b4e9a8f7ac_story.html
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: September 23, 2015, 1:28 am
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[center]Two Powerful Studies Expose Manipulation Of Climate
“Debate” [/center]
September 17th, 2015 by Sandy Dechert
Two extensive studies released yesterday (September 16, 2015)
reveal a long-term betrayal of the truth about climate by major
US business identities. Make-believe corporate “persons” have
knowingly undermined the health, safety, and even short-term
survival of real humans and other living things.
One of the studies explores the metamorphosis of ExxonMobil to
“the dark side” over the past 40 years.
The other implicates almost half of the world’s 100 largest
companies, including Procter & Gam ble and Duke Energy, in
obstructing climate change legislation.
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Full, must read, article:
HTML http://cleantechnica.com/2015/09/17/two-powerful-studies-expose-manipulation-climate-debate/
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: October 10, 2015, 11:32 pm
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10/07/2015 01:15 PM
BP Settles for $20.8 Billion For Gulf Spill, Mostly A Tax
Deduction
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SustainableBusiness.com News
Five years after BP's tragic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the
Gulf, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) settled out of court
for $20.8 billion to resolve all charges related to natural
resource damage and restoration.
Before you get excited about the big charge, realize that most
of it is being paid by taxpayers because ... BP can deduct $15.3
billion as a tax deduction! According to the IRS, it's an
"ordinary cost of doing business." Just $5.5 billion is
explicitly not deductible as a penalty under the Clean Water
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The settlement also allows BP to claim $5.35 billion as a tax
windfall, nearly offsetting the cost of the Clean Water Act
penalty, says PIRG. Adding further insult, BP gets to spread the
payments over 18 years.
[quote]"This not only sends the wrong message, but it also hurts
taxpayers by forcing us to shoulder the burden of BP's tax
windfall in the form of higher taxes, cuts to public programs,
and more national debt," explains Michelle Surka at PIRG. DOJ
could have specified non-deductibility as part of the
settlement, but it did not. :evil4: [/quote]
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[quote] "This resolution is strong and fitting," says Attorney
General Loretta Lynch. "BP is receiving the punishment it
deserves while also providing critical compensation to the
damage to the Gulf region." The settlement - which must be
approved by a federal court - is the largest ever in the US with
a corporation. [/quote]
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BP has already written off the $32 billion it spent for cleanup
after the spill, with a tax windfall of $10 billion. The only
charge DOJ specified as non-deductible is the $4.5 billion
criminal settlement for the deaths of 11 oil rig workers and for
misleading shareholders on how much oil it spilled. The company
also agreed to $5.9 billion in settlements with the five Gulf
states.
DOJ's case is separate from the class-action settlement between
BP and the businesses and individuals affected by the spill. The
company has tried hard to get away with paying it, taking it all
the way to the Supreme Court - which denied BP's appeal in July.
The Obama administration announced that $8.8 billion of the
settlement will go into a Gulf Restoration Fund. $5 billion of
it will be used to repair Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The rest
will restore habitats and water quality. Hundreds of miles of
shoreline was damaged and more than a million birds and other
wildlife died, according to environmental groups.
"Every penny of this BP settlement ought to be going to
recovering these badly damaged Gulf ecosystems, and BP ought to
be paying a fine that really hurts, rather than an amount that
will barely affect its balance sheet," says Miyoko Sakash ita of
the Center for Biological Diversity. "Worse yet, the Obama
administration has yet to implement significant reforms to make
sure this never happens again."
Recent studies show ongoing harm from the spill, such as severe
lung injuries that killed dolphins, near-record lows of Kemp's
Ridley sea turtle nesting, chemical dispersants still impacting
corals and a "bathtub ring" of oil still on the seafloor.
For 2014, BP reported $44.3 billion in profits. Meanwhile, while
it releases reports on climate change and calls for a carbon
tax,
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BP tops the list of companies obstructing Europe's action on
climate change. It has strongly opposed even slightly higher
prices for the EU's cap-and-trade program, and it is behind the
weaker-than-expected renewable energy and efficiency goals in
its climate pledge.
Read more:
Website:
HTML http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/21/bp-tops-the-list-of-firms-obstructing-climate-action-in-europe
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: October 15, 2015, 6:18 pm
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U.S., Alaska end quest for damages against Exxon over 1989 spill
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - U.S. and Alaskan authorities have
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/>to seek additional damages from Exxon Mobil Corp over the 1989
Exxon Valdez oil spill and the subsequent settlement, the
Department of Justice said on Thursday.
The department said in a statement that it is "bringing to a
close the federal and state judicial actions" against the
company and opting not to recover more damages under the
reopener provision of the 1991 settlement following the spill.
Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards said in the statement
that although officials were not pursuing the additional
damages, authorities will consider alternatives for dealing with
lingering oil sites.
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(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Bill Trott)
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Agelbert NOTE: ALL the details on how LEGALESE (not to be
confused with the term, "legalized"
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/>was used by Empathy Deficit Disordered Lawyers who WORKED (and
who continue to this day to "WORK") THE SYSTEM to absolve
Exxonmobil of full accountability for this ECOCIDE HERE.
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The DETAILS of the "AWARD"
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HERE.
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Prosecute Exxon For Deliberate Climate Denial
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[move][I][font=impact]The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Climate
Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but
since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks,
they are trying to AVOID [/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING
THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
ution
By: AGelbert Date: October 15, 2015, 9:04 pm
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[center]See Exxon officials LIE through their TEETH! [/center]
[center]WATCH the first use of "oil dispersing" CRAP long before
it was used in the 2011 BP rig explosion and spill. To these
CRIMINALS, EVERYTHING is a "business opportunity".
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