PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - We dont learn from past mistakes identical oil spills in Canada and Gulf in 1979-2010

Jim B. · #12 05-28-2010, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by RichC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo&feature=player_embedded#!

Same oil leak in in Canadian Pipeline.

Same offshore oil rig blowout in Gulf of Mexico.

one in 1979
one in 2010

Same companies, same problems, same failed attempts at stopping the leaks.

We are officially idiots

Only to the extent we allow the Corporate greedheads to evade and escape PERSONALLY their responsibility for this. AGAIN !!!!

Their personal fortunes should be confiscated and all of it spent spent on restitution while they are jailed in GENERAL POPULATION of maximum security prisons serving the maximum criminal term.

Maximizing shareholder and investor profits need to take a subordinate position to the public good, in such cases.

Betcha we'd see some real loud howling about prison reform as a by product of this, too.

I have no doubt that Republican senators are being bribed this very minute by oil company lobbyists to make sure their liability is minimalised for this.