Seems the Oil corporations continue on their merry way making their huge profit margins. The unlucky people of Prince William Sound Alaska with their lives ruined didn't receive a tenth of what they were originally awarded in compensation - 20 years too late. Much less the environment - fish stocks never recovered. Did the oil companies double hull their tankers as a result? Were genuine clean-up operations enforced by law? 20 years later and still the oil companies dupe you all. I still have a video of Black Rain Falls ... when Peter Garrett was still with Midnight Oil and not the Environment Minister. Seems nothing has changed to me.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/5914258/鈥?/a>Anyone remember Exxon Oil - Valdez 1989 - No?
Yup. 10th grade sitting in the gym during lunch discussing weather we should skip school for awhile and get a job wiping rocks for $20/hr. or whatever they were paying then. Now I work in the shipping industry (not on oil tankers- can't take the benzene) and all the oil tankers under US flag and/or entering US waters have to be double hulled. Nature could do a better job cleaning up our mess than we could ever do. It's just going to take a blink of an eye in geologic time.
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