Coverup at Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline? – from Farron Cousins
An Orchestrated Cover Up Of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Spill Health Hazards? (via Desmogblog)
Nearly six months have passed since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline ruptured and released as much as 7,000 barrels of diluted bitumen into Mayflower, Arkansas. And as soon as the company realized that they had a problem, the cover up began…
I’m with Beth that public shaming is one occasionally effective method for change. All of us need to expose the oil lobby and rescind all those subsidies, from which they benefit. Just like SB 21 in Alaska, giveaways are rampant throughout the Federal budget. On this eve of ‘shutdown’ this kind of change would help a lot. (Although these discussions should have been going on for months, if not 5 years.) n
Bitumen (tar sands oil) should all be left in the ground. It is so corrosive that the pipes will ALWAYS leak; this is just one of the worst examples. Actually, by this point in time, virtually all oil and gas should be left in situ, and all the taxpayer subsidies of the oil, coal and gas industries ENDED, permanently. Additionally, all the harm done to humans, wildlife, and the environment as the result of their rapaciousness and recklessness should be compensated with huge monetary rewards, since quality of life is diminished forevermore. Sunlight is the best disinfectant; let’s take these vampire corporations out of the darkness and into the light.
There’s a reason public shaming is so effective. Money can’t stop it. As a society, we need to make the gas and oil mucky-mucks (and the policies they follow and/or impose on the public), the butt of our common ridicule — expose them for the buffoons they are so they’re forced to assume the position in which they rightfully belong: laughing stocks for us all. beth.
This is an environmental justice issue and someone with a lot of money needs to sue the crap out of them. How in the hell can a corporation go and circumvent the authorities like this? It is beyond criminal.
It happens all the time.
Money is the lubrication in the great machine of capitalism. They will either pour money into placating people so they shut up, or into fighting them legally ad infinitum. It sucks, but there will be no real justice for these people, and Exxon will not face any consequences other than monetary consequences, and the severity of those will depend on the exposure this situation is given.