Exxon Sues U.S. for Oil Dumping

[sabra]

Source: CN

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) - Exxon Mobil claims it spent $45 million cleaning up a Texas oil refinery contaminated by the federal government's manufacture of jet fuel and other war material during World War II and the Korean War. It wants Uncle Sam to pay it back.
Exxon seeks reimbursement of clean-up costs that it says will continue.

The oil giant claims the United States converted and expanded the oil refinery and chemical plant in Baytown, Texas, in the early 1940s to produce aviation jet fuel and other war-related materials and continued to operate the facilities through the Korean War. It claims the Government enacted legislation that gave it unprecedented power to assume control over industrial complexes.

Exxon says Uncle Sam built five more plants at its Baytown manufacture raw, war-related materials, such as synthetic rubber. It claims the government oversaw day-to-day operations of the plant, including waste disposal, and "generated substantial hazardous waste" during the 1940s and 1950s.

"Much of the solid waste generated from the operations was treated and/or disposed of at various surface impoundments at the Baytown complex. Most of the treated wastewaters was ultimately discharged into nearby surface water bodies, such as the Houston Ship Channel, Scott's Bay or Mitchell Bay, at the Baytown Site," according to the complaint.

Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/03/31/26018.htm

[Demeter]

1. They can have the Iraq War in Trade

bastards

[prezpeng]

3. Rabbit Hole

down, down, down...

[JanusAscending]

2. GOOD GRIEF!!

I now really think that I've fallen down the "rabbit hole"!! Have they ever paid the money for cleaning up their "accident" of the Exxon Valdez??? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!!

[Froward69]

4. Hear Here!!!

[polly7]

5. Sure they did. After decades of legal maneuvering that left the

recipients a fraction of what they were owed. They stalled so long many were dead by the time the Supreme Court ruled.

[skeptical cynic]

6. Read "Sound Truth & Corporate Myth$" by Riki Ott

This isn't unexpected by any person who realizes how arrogant and assured of their power Big Oil companies are.

This is Big Oil spitting in the face of every decent human being on the planet.

Courtesy of the company that gave us the Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill, a PR stunt pseudo-cleanup, and the thousands of cleanup workers they failed to protect in the process.

For another horror story, look into Chevron's dealings with the indigenous people of Ecuador: http://chevrontoxico.com/