IN TODAY’S REPORT: Today we’re gonna party like it’s 1989…in Alaska…because it’s the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska; and the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Alaska’s Mount Redoubt, now blowing up again (and in Bobby Jindal’s) face; and the 20th anniversary of the global agreement to save the ozone layer, thus saving Alaska, and everywhere else in the world…PLUS: Poo and Pee Power gives “bio-gas” a whole new meaning…All that and more in today’s Green News Report!
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Info/links on stuff we talked about on today’s episode, plus MORE green news, all follows below…
- Lasting legacy of the Exxon Valdez: Twenty years on, the iconic oil spill remains an expensive ecological disaster
- Stick your damn hand in it: 20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie
Indeed, the “human error” tale was the hook used by the Bush-stacked Supreme Court to slash the punitive damages awarded against Exxon by 90%, from $5 billion, to half a billion for 30,000 Natives and fishermen. Chief Justice John Roberts erased almost all of the payment due with the la-dee-dah comment, “What more can a corporation do?”
- Lessons of the Exxon Valdez
Yet the Exxon Valdez still sends a powerful cautionary message: oil development, however necessary, is an inherently risky, dirty business — especially so in the forbidding waters of the Arctic.
- Exxon Valdez: From One Footnote, a Debate Over the Tangles of Law, Science and Money
- Exxon Mobil Reports Record $45.2 Billion Profit For 2008
- Exxon Chairman’s $400 Million Parachute: Exxon Made Record Profits in 2005
- New Simulation Shows Consequences of a World Without Earth’s Natural Sunscreen
- Jindal’s Mockery Of Volcano Monitoring Money Only Looking Dumber After Redoubt Blows
- Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupts 5 times, sending smoke plumes 50,000 feet high
- City buses turn to sewage for ‘clean’ fuel
More green news not covered in today’s episode:
- UN Secretary General Urges Citizens To Join WWF’s Earth Hour: Turn off your lights for one hour in solidarity on Saturday, March 28th, 8:30pm local time all over the world!
- India’s Tata Motors unveils the world’s cheapest car
- Governor open to feds raising gas tax for projects
- Europe to Kiss Edison’s Lightbulb Goodbye: The European Commission formally adopted new regulations on Wednesday that will effectively phase out incandescent light bulbs in Europe by 2012.
- Solar Industry Posts Strong Growth in 2008
- Oceans awash in toxic seas of plastic: Go down to the beach today and you’ll find plenty of garbage among the sand — but that’s nothing compared with the continent-sized whirlpools of lethal waste out there beyond the horizon
WAKE UP AMERICA THIS IS THE SHIT!:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/24/thomas_geoghegan_on_infinite_debt_how
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/24/20_years_after_exxon_valdez_oil
The best revenge is Democracy!
I’ll have yinz know me daughter was born in AK during the ex Valdez. I’d been fishing and working there for a while. Get this, a friend of mine came up with idea for the boom to surround the oil. Somebody took the idea and patented it. He got nothing and the creep who did that made bunches of money. He was a Kodiak fisherman, trying to help save his livelihood.
Wilburrr… and I miss our old Jeep Cherokee Valdez trail blazer . . .
Regarding a previous Green news on new trees for soft TP vs he man TP (rough & takes no …). Do you have any statistics as to wipes per tree or linear foot etc. ?
You know, you can’t listen to Riki Ott without thinking, “Why in the heck isn’t she the Governor of Alaska?”
After reading the Palast article, I’d like to clarify the boom I was talking about in my above comment was made from an absorbant material not the rubber ones the oil companies were not using when it happened. Another issue related to the spill that no one ever talks about is the fact that the oil that was allowed to sink turns basically to asphalt paving the sea floor. I learned about that while talking to one of their spill experts who had worked on the spill in the English Channel in 1978.