Comments on: Stick Your Damn Hand In It: 20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie

By: iain

iain — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:40:14 +0000

Cant believe this.. so stupid. i remember watching this on ABC one night, i still cant believe that a jury awarded such a small amount of money to pay off everybodys debt and to make it even a little bit worthwhile..

By: Trd788

Trd788 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:54:59 +0000

Man I remember watching all this on ABC nightly news as a kid.

pure shea butter

By: John Gilbert

John Gilbert — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:46:26 +0000

According to the crude oil field records from the Texas oil
commission, there is a Bush-Exxon lease for oil that produced.

The information is from Texas Railroad Commission
Bush-Exxon Oil Lease # 28758, District 08 (Ward)

webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/PDQ/quickLeaseReportBuilderAction.do

There's also a website that has samples of this
crude oil at http://www.texasrawcrude.com

By: Textynn

Textynn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:45:21 +0000

We have a similar problem here in Spokane. After the Hillyard Oil Refinery of 70 years was closed they built businesses on the property along the street and put a tank farm connected to a underground pipeline behind it. The site is a filthy Superfund site and continues to pollute at night under a darkness order. In the morning a former grocery store turned Community College on this site is the school home for several hundred HeadStart kids and several hundred other Community College students. Staff doesn't last too long there. Lots get MS and arthritis. But fortunately for the oil company these diseases are easily blamed on other things. The tank farm carries no sign and the address, not displayed, is on an invisible wisp of dirt road. It took me years to track down the research on this place with no names or addresses to work with. Finally did it though. This site is a bonafide Superfund site with lead, cadmium, chromium 3 & 6, and arsenic. And apparently it's legal to plop a daycare and school right in it. I worked there and figured out what was going on when i got a rash from hell that got worse over a 3 year period. I know how that otter feels because I scratched every inch of my skin to bloody shreds before I put this all together.

Our leaders are not taking care of its people. We must continue to demand a clean environment and the likes of Exxon to be responsible for the damage they do. This is a disgrace and a crime against humanity. If our lawmakers don't even care about kids in daycare we have proof positive that they are not good people. Anyone voting to allow this kind of poisoning of innocent people will never get my vote. Poisoning is one of the most vicious things that can be done to another person or creature. If anyone is doing this knowingly, they're monsters and criminals period.

By: ian

ian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:13:37 +0000

this is gross behavior,we are definitely headed for a second noah's arc style flood, greg, please tell us, what can i do right now to stop this type of behavior,
i cannot beleive i live in a world where this is exceptable,and tolerated-

By: Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:25:25 +0000

Thank you for this story.

By: Biker Dave

Biker Dave — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:43:31 +0000

Excellent article, I have just watched the program shown on the BBC to mark the 20th aniversary. I am old enough to remember the spill made easier by the day being my birthday. The article above highlights details not made in the documentary. I am not a 'green fanatic' and neither am I a 'corporate star' BUT i do believe after taking a balanced look at the 'facts' in the public domain that two things stand out: The ability of the US justice system and sheer audacity (although predictable action by Exxon) to allow retrial after retrial to happen, yes i know all the facts have to be allowed for but as time goes by the truth and memory recall sinks into history with the end result that'it wasn't that bad'! The area is still damaged 'to an extent', it is not as before the spill, that is fact. Mother nature is a wonderful thing but even she cannot work wonders. The images of the animals is haunting and the image of the Exxon president claims that 'we did our best' is nauseating. Yes it was an accident, accidents do not just happen, they are a series of events that contribute to an outcome of risk that could be prevented with suitable actions to safeguard these events occuring in the first place. From this day on I will never knowingly purchase or buy an 'Exxon' product; although this is difficult I will try my very best, it will never bother Exxon in the slightest but come the day of reckoning I can say 'i tried'.

By: Claude

Claude — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:27:28 +0000

I enjoyed this article a lot. Is there documentation somewhere of your allegation that the radar was broken?
thanks

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:46:23 +0000

Thanks, Greg. And thanks for the photo of you in the plane...you were wearing soppy hats back then as well!

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:31:15 +0000

Thanks Greg for all your great work in trying to awaken the people of the USSA (United Sleepwalking States of America) Glad to find out that you were in there helping during the spill. In referring to Arco though, it could be inferred BP may have been a good guy in this all,not true. ARCO did not become part of BP until many years later when BP tried, unsuccessfully to get a monopoly on Alaska's north slope. I've worked for both companies and there is a big difference in their attitude. BP has always and continues to be about green wash, lies, minimal upkeep and preparedness. There is a TV doc. "Slick Operators" that was made by Scottish Eye public television that makes the point quite well. I got a copy from Rikki Ott a few months after the spill. Its' point was that while they were doing all the right things at their oil terminal in Slullom Voe Scotland, BP was saying that they were impossible and fighting them in Alaska and successful in keeping them from being implemented. ARCO was always better about trying to do the right thing. I volunteered at one of the Otter rescue centers during the spill. The efforts made there were sincere and good research was done but in my opinion it was Mostly about PR for Big Oil. Most of the USers did not get it though I spent many an evening discussing with some international vols how the tens of thousands of dollars that was being spent per "saved" otter might be used to feed the worlds starving children.