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IronNoggin

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24th Anniversary - Exxon Valdez
« on: March 26, 2013, 09:43:41 AM »
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Re: 24th Anniversary - Exxon Valdez
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 01:16:27 PM »
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Re: 24th Anniversary - Exxon Valdez
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2013, 03:40:36 PM »
"Exxon also sent waves of lawyers to fight the court awards from the spill, finally last year winning a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the company to pay about ten cents for each dollar of the original award to fishermen and others affected by the spill."



And here were paying fish farmers on the east coast for their self produced death by ISA. Would ya go figure. We could expect the same thing here with any company that causes a spill. Lawyers are probably petioning to get the pipeline through.

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Re: 24th Anniversary - Exxon Valdez
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2013, 03:48:54 PM »
Hard to believe it's been 24 years.
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Re: 24th Anniversary - Exxon Valdez
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2013, 07:56:42 PM »
The beaches are still polluted in prince William sound.  We don't need oil tankers off of prince Rupert. It's a disaster waiting to happen!


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Re: 24th Anniversary - Exxon Valdez
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2013, 11:44:32 AM »
Consider than Exxon Valdez was caused by an low volume American tanker in American waters on a relatively calm day.  The captain was drunk, thus negligence was obviously present.  Courts awarded $0.10 on the dollar for losses to fishermen.  The beaches are still not clean and Exxon still has not paid up.

Now consider a Chinese VLCC tanker ten times the size of the Valdez tanker navigating Douglas Chanel and Hecate strait, a much more perilous passage.  A spill is far more likely to happen in BC than it was in Valdez.  Are we willing to accept that we'd *permanently lose* thousands of kilometres of coastline?

Any human being with a pulse over the age of 4 can easily see the folly of allowing tankers to access this part of our coast.
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Re: 24th Anniversary - Exxon Valdez
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2013, 05:29:45 PM »
True, plus the pipeline will rupture and spill at some point, it's just a question of where and when.  BC took the moral high ground by declaring a moratorium on uranium mining that could of saved it when lumber crashed and the coal mining deal fell through in the 80's, will BC be able to stop Keystone?
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