Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Total Forced to Pay

Al Jazeera, which, despite its questionable politics, is the only place you can get truly complete Mid-East news, has reported that Total, the French oil giant whose 1999 spill dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the oceans, has been ordered by a court to pay 300 million in damages. They should. We have no conception of the damage that spills do to ecosystems. They offset the entire aquatic life cycle.

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