ExxonMobil pleads guilty to killing birds

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Source: Salon

ExxonMobil pleads guilty to killing birds

Aug 13th, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay about $7,000 each for dozens of birds killed at various company properties.

ExxonMobil pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of approximately 85 protected migratory birds, most of whom died after exposure to natural gas well reserve pits and waste water storage facilities. Birds died in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas between 2004 and 2009.

The firm will pay a fine of $600,000 and has also agreed to make changes to prevent such bird deaths in the future. The company says it has already spent $2.5 million in the effort.

Justice Department officials are discussing the case following a guilty plea by the corporation in federal court in Denver.


Read more: http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2009/08/13/D9A235V04_us_exxonmobil_birds/

[Witchy_Dem]

1. I'll believe it the day they actually pay it.

[gratuitous]

2. Yeah

Dime one has yet to be paid on the Exxon Valdez judgment.

[Witchy_Dem]

3. Exactly.

[XemaSab]

4. I have never spent a DIME at Exxon

Not one DIME.

If I could boycott them twice as hard, I would.