One of four photos Exxon Mobil has posted since the cleanup began.
Remember when BP dumped all that dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico to make the Deepwater Horizon oil go away? In Montana, where an Exxon Mobil pipeline spilled oil into the Yellowstone River, high waters have scattered the oil. The International Bird Rescue folks write:
Massive snowmelt has made the river a rapid and violent body of water that has wiped out the quiet inlets and slack water areas that waterfowl enjoy. Many of the area’s seasonal wild residents had already been forced to move, thereby avoiding much of the oil as it flowed down the river.
The turbulent river was so fast that it broke up the slick into streamers that eventually became smaller smudges and pieces of oil. These pieces can be seen on patches of vegetation, and as they dehydrate and become even more sticky, leaf and other debris adheres to them, helping them decompose quicker, and ultimately making them less likely to harm wildlife. On the other hand, fast-moving water also makes finding any remaining oil more difficult.
Exxon Mobil says it has nearly 600 people working on the cleanup. As of Saturday, the company reporting having treated a garter snake and a western toad. Bonus read: The National Wildlife Federation says Exxon Mobil is making a hash of this.
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600 people working on cleaning up the spill, or 600 people standing around making useless rings to toss around and holding paper towels?
There's a difference, Exxon.
Amen!
Children in poverty have nothing to do with the oil spill. Exxon is trying to avoid the obligation to clean up the spill. They are trying to shift the costs of cleanup to the taxpayers by doing a minimal amount of cleanup. The governor says no to that idea and demands Exxon clean up the spill at their own expense.
Thank you, Mike for replying to that Dead Ringer. Who looks sort of like W replying,"You did a heck of a job,Brownie".
I smell a re reg...but then I always do when people post like that.
matt ringer-3732297, you are suspended for a day for violating rule # 1 of the Code of Honor.
How republican of them. Ok, let's make a huge mess and have someone else clean it up and just as a bonus we can blame the entire thing on them.
YOU READ MY MIND........Or I read yours :~)
Problem is they don't care. Public opinion doesn't cost them anything. When we rise up and quit buying their products it might. Amazing how polls show public want one thing and the pols and corps don't care.
I belive that the real crime is when legislators try to make law that severely limits the liability of corporations that do this damage to our environment. They can hurt it and hurt people and do not have to pay for it. Then the costs rest on the taxpayers in the interests of business. It sends the signal that they can do all the damage they want and not have to worry about the courts. And with all the budget cuts, we as Americans will suffer as we lose access to the courts for redress.
Singin' that old Joan Baez song, "How many times ..." This whole argument is blowin' in the wind. With corporations running our entire political system, this is the status quo. Sorry if I sound cynical. Making money without responsibility or accountability is still the 'end game' for these irresponsible giants.
This is just a repeated script. Do the same thing over and over and it will become the norm.
How is exxon disposing the oil soaked paper towels?
Bet they recycle the oil soaked paper towels into consumer products ...
they are selling them to the koch bro's and they are making TP out of it so that you will not have a rough wipe. lol
Someone needs to say it...Screw you Exxon Mobil.
Not to mention what the chemcial dispersants (Deep Horizon Spill) have done to the ocean and every living thing that depends on it; oh, and that would be us, too!
Plumes of oxygen eating dispersant circling the globe and destroying everything in or passing through it's path. It's said that Mother Earth will take care of itself. Well, she may just take care of the offenders and start over....
Exxon, the other oil companies, the coal, gas, and a host of other companies are trying to shift the costs of cleanup for pollution to the taxpayers. Profits are privatized while costs are socialized. The governor of Montana says no and so should we. The EPA law provides limited liability for these companies for damages. We need to repeal those provisions and shift all costs to the companies for damages as well as cleanup costs.
Wait Rachel, I thought everyone was supposed to be going back to college?!? That's what they said one my TV? I could earn a million more dollars in my lifetime... Why would I want to clean up this mess when I could get a real job earning huge money by going back to school!!! Don't you "get it" Doesn't everyone here "get it"
The purpose of this big push for everyone to go back to school is because America is becoming this like 3rd world country of like people that sit around and like text on their cell phones and stuff! :)
We stuff food in our fat faces and sit in front of our computers and tv's for several hours at a time. The only exercise we get is when we walk to our cars!
Then we wonder why the Japanese and the Chinese are kicking our ass at everything!
We are in this mess right now because it wasn't done right to begin with. That's right! I said it. Because some fellow was stressed out with his 2.2 kids and fighting with his wife and over looked the planning phase of the part that failed and caused the whole disaster. I really need a sarcasm font here.
All I am saying is we all knew this was going to come back and bite us in the a$$ in a huge way months and even years from when it happened. So here we all are... and now who the hell is going to foot this frickin' bill! BP still paying for this now??
I wonder why when the cleanup crews are shown there are never more than two workers pictured at a time. They also do not seem to be working with any sense of urgency.
This is not an issue of available money to do things correctly it is doing the least that they have to do and get by. A lack of political will and public will to change our behaviors is also to blame.
hence the attacks on 'too much regulation' and Obama being anti-business, like they arent getting away with it all already!! I still cannot believe no one responsible for the economic crimes committed has been brought to justice! One more step toward fascism.
i hope that picture is from The Onion...
It's time we started to force Congress to force the most obscenely profitable company in the history of the world to use some of their $5,000,000 per hour profit and clean up their own mess!!!
That picture makes me feel underwhelmed.
I can tell you what happened to critters. Exxon Mobile murdered them, and the Earth Mother weeps for her dead children.