The Day The Water Died - Sierra Club Chronicles

[TopherBehnke]

This was not just a failure on the part of a negligent company: this was a failure on the part of negligent -regulators- the state of Alaska, the Feds, the USCG, all share responsibility for turning a blind eye to Exxon. This is a story of corporate influence over government regulators in order to maximize profit. This is NOT a story of a drunk sea captain, the focus on Hazelwood was all an Outside -based media could do to portray (simplify) a tremendously complex situation, to make a sale.

[cesaremario1968]

oil retards

[aheneghana]

WE are killing our planet. Our responsibility lies with eliminating - or at least reducing dependence on fossil fuels, buy electric vehicles. We MUST take this issue serious, now or face a harrowing future. twitter aheneghana

[dweit4]

Their still in business because people still buy oil

[kctrocks5]

this is terrible, i never buy gas from mobil or exxon. THOSE STUPID ANIMAL KILLERS

[trex250]

Let´s use the power of the internet and youtube and HURT Exxon in a financial way by boycotting them. I will NEVER ever buy petrol from Exxon Mobile. I will tell everyone that I know about this sad story and how Exxon is dragging this on while destroying peoples lives. The true power is in our hands not theirs!

[yeahyomomma342]

i cant belive my science teacher made me watch this whole fricken thing

[WildlifeDen]

I can't f***ing believe ExxonMobil got away with this scott free. the court threw out the case.

yet when some animal liberator frees a few mink from cages he's automatically a violent terrorist and gets 20 years. ExxonMobil owns america. lock stock and barrel

This is why i refuse to give Exxon or Mobil any biz at all. I'll go hungry before i buy a single sandwich from them. I'll be stranded and walk 20 miles before I buy any of their gas

It's so tragic, I actually cried when I first saw this

[tellthetruth811]

Maybe I am just more compassionate than most people, but if my company was responsible for some disaster like this I would do everything in my power to clean it up. I would take a percentage of future profits my company made to keep cleaning till it was all fix and make sure the people have recovered. I would advertise on tv what a horrible mistake my company had made and ask if anyone or other companies could help out in the clean up to reduce damage. Fair is fair. Maybe I am just not greedy.

[kazooga1234]

same but most americans dont really give a shit about much at least thats how i feel about this world

[whateverdude789]

why are those god damn motherfuckers still in business???

[bitterbonker]

because everyone's their customer...

[SegaJackNL]

I hate those disasters. the oil should be stored in carbontube boxes or something. The animals....its really sad.....

[hotterdonna]

I watched this in my Advanced Environmental Science class. It drove me nuts. It drives me nuts that the corporation waited days before they started cleanup of the oil. What were they waiting for, really? And the people didn't know what to do, they didn't have the means. They wanted the party responsible to clean up the mess they made. I'd be pissed too. Deeply pissed...

[wariotube]

They must clean the shit they did. They have to feel the oil in their bodies.

>:(

Exxon must be closed, this is not acceptable.

[soha225]

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[secars]

They don't take responsibility because they aren't forced to. Corporations don't care about people.

[DangerNerd]

Just a thought: Knowing that the seas were perfectly calm at the time... why didn't they abandon the tanker, and set fire to the slick? The damage could not POSSIBLY have been worse.

[pSsaSsafras]

It is a shame the community didn't enforce an immediate cleanup and instead waited for exxon to do it. The people of Cordova are fighting for basic compensation rather than for exxon to pay the bills from a successful cleanup operation that allows the community to regain their loses. What good is compensation anyway when the land you live on is dead. I'd rather fight for the money spent to clean the land than fight for money to ease my sorrow and lose.

[sixths3ns3]

I pray for your town. Though I'm a filipino, far away from your land.

[oeufgwoieu]

FUK EXON!!

[vermiciousknid1974]

sierra club can kiss my butt i stopped sending them bi-yearly contributions after they opposed turbine power in NH yeah they can totally kiss my @55!. you know why they oppose it do ya? it blocks their pristing views and kills birds! their organization has turned into a bunch of overbloated wack jobs with HA-UGE egos. SAVE YOU MONEY ..DONT GIVE IT TO SIERRA CLUB.

[arcticpilot]

I lived there. You'ed have to see it to fully grasp the change.

[akui88]

the numbers {cordova pop.=(3,000\5,000,000,000)=1.7­million per.person}

1.7 million - Tax - lawyers fees = est. 800,000 per person

800,000\16 years = $50,000 per year

What a giff the longer the case remains in court the less the victims stand gain from the accident.

LOL

[mayb447]

It's impossible to support the Sierra Club anymore... it's just a Leftist Political group. Sad to see what used to be an ok group get taken over for Political gain.

[tellthetruth811]

They are what they are, but you have to look at the information. This place was not cleaned up and people are damaged by this. I wish people could sometimes look past the source of information and learn as much as they can about the truth.

[macman13]

"They said it would only happen once in every 432 years of operation, it happened after 13."

Just because it will only happen evey 432 years doesn't mean the first one will take 432 years. If you flipo a coin, it will be heads every 2 times, but you could get heads the first time.

[JamieKearsey]

Technically you won't get heads EVERY 2 times as that never happens.

[tscreamosoult]

we should come together and get the word out on how Exxon never paid the 5 billion dollar bill and boycott Exxon

[changbj88]

what goes up must comes down:oil companies

[commedore64]

Great Exxon oil spill resource page http://www.explorenorth.com/li­brary/weekly/aa032499.htm