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Pebbles
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 Posted: 01/30/03 - 22:24 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | rtpd113 wrote: | Joel if that is about Alaska and the Valdez let me tell you something. Prince William sound is now cleaner than it was before. Exxon pumped over a billion dollars to clean it up. Even the people up there I spoke with said though mad at Exxon, Alaska is cleaner. Standards have changed because of it. I believe they more than paid their debt.
They even built a nature center that cost several million dollars that studies long term effects. It also has an exhibit reminding people of what happened. Yeah it is a little propaganda .
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I still can't forget about:
--the fact that Joseph Hazelwood didn't even have a drivers license (taken away 6 months before the accident due to DWI) but could somehow captain a vessel of oil. Oh, had 4 whiskeys in him at the time and was currently 'sleeping' at the time of the incident.
--EXXON turned the Prince William Sound area from the 9th best fishing spot in the world to the 1,245th (ballpark)...wiping out 80% of the business and commerce...INSTANTLY. Even though the communities won their cases, Exxon stalled the hearings until 1996 so they wouldn't have to pay a dime back to the community.
--Just 1 and a half years later, EXXON released a video showing how well they cleaned up Prince William and sent the video to thousands of schools. note: there wasn't ONE scene of the damage their spill had caused to the wildlife. Not one.
--They poured in 2.1 million dollars out of their own pockets for the clean-up simply because they were forced to. The CEO of the company didn't even visit the site until a week after the spill.
It's a personal choice that I've made not to support this business, Joe. Every business does alot of sucky things. I deem thee, the suckiest. |
[scroll:04163d9ead]WARNING!! WARNING!! DANGER!! Will Robinson!! DANGER!![/scroll:04163d9ead]
So, who here likes pizza?
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Erstwhile Lurker
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 22:46 Post subject:
Googling the parent companies of the makers of everthing on my shopping list to ascertain their good corporate citizenship is too much work. 
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monk25
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Posted: 01/30/03 - 23:04 Post subject:
| Erstwhile Lurker wrote: | | Googling the parent companies of the makers of everthing on my shopping list to ascertain their good corporate citizenship is too much work. |
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/31/03 - 00:16 Post subject:
| Erstwhile Lurker wrote: | | Googling the parent companies of the makers of everthing on my shopping list to ascertain their good corporate citizenship is too much work. |
That's why I've narrowed it down two 'minions' and really give them the 'business', by of course, not giving them the business...
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