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kairos12

(12,858 posts)
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 12:57 PM Apr 2013

Exxon off the hook in oil spill

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/exxon-hook-paying-cleanup-fund-guess-

snip:

"The great irony of this tragic spill in Arkansas is that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the US is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Exxon, like all companies shipping toxic tar sands, doesn’t have to pay into the fund that will cover most of the clean up costs for the pipeline’s inevitable spills.”

(bold my emphasis)

Here we go, privatize profits, socialize losses, Arkansas pay up.



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