Exon Exempt from Arkansas Oil Spill as Oiled and Dead Wildlife Turn Up?

[KoKo]

(I hope this report turns out to not be true...but Abby Zimet does write about Wild Life and our Declining Environment...so I believe what she's saying must have some truth)


Not Just Toxic, But Exempt

by Abby Zimet

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/04/02-2

The news from Exxon's Arkansas pipeline spill just keeps getting worse. Not only are dead and what officials are calling "oiled" ducks turning up - coated in oil so thick it's "like removing gum from someone's hair" - but Exxon, thanks to a legal technicality, won't be paying to clean up any of their mess. What's running through their pipelines is diluted bitumen from Alberta tar sands heavy crude, which under a 1980 law is mysteriously not classified as oil. That means that companies transporting it do not have to pay into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund that covers the costs of inevitable debacles like the one now inundating Arkansas. So they get a free ride/subsidy for trashing our backyards. And yes. Same goes for Keystone.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/04/02-2

[Mojorabbit]

1. I hope it isn't true also. It would be a travesty if so. nt

[KoKo]

2. I think our Birds and other Wildlife are under incredible STRESS

these days from "weather, tornadoes, hurricanes, drought and extended cold from the Climate Change.

The bees are dying and many beneficial species of insects have been destroyed by the Pesticides and the GMO Modified Seeds along with other new Scientific Discoveries that work against them.

It's all about Corporate Profits WITHOUT thinking of the Consequences in the name of "Giving the Investors a Good Return on their Money." To be FAIR many of these investors are our "Pension Funds, IRA's and other instruments that banks use to give us some PUNY return on our money these days.

It's all tied together...It's NOT SUSTAINABLE...Biologically, Healthy Wise or Investment Wise that this can continue before we all perish...but, the Wealthy will Always find SOME PLACE TO GO AND ENJOY...and their CHILDREN will THRIVE.

But...none of this applies to those below the 1 or 2% of People.

That's OKAY with that GROUP...they have access and that's all they care about is keeping THEIR FAMILIES SAVE & PROSPEROUS ...over the rest of the Worlds Struggling and forced into Poverty. It's just what the Rich Do and have done throughout History.

[warrior1]

3. How do they even know

how deep this oil has gotten into and for how long it's really been leaking.