Legislature toys with Exxon-Valdez element in oil-tax rewrite

Mon, November 5, 2007
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories

A new legal tool was introduced yesterday that, supporters say, would put pressure on Exxon to pay the two-point-five million dollars it owes Alaska residents from damages caused by the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. For a few hours, it was in the oil tax re-write before the House Resources committee. But faced with the risk that the special session might have to be extended, members recanted their decision to put it in. However, it still could come back before the legislature finishes its work on the bill

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7 Comments to “Legislature toys with Exxon-Valdez element in oil-tax rewrite”

Andrey Martushev on November 5, 2007 at 10:00 pm

our legislatures owe it to their constituents to push this through the committee,whether the special session would have to be extended or not.alaska residents have been waiting 18 years for this,isnt it about time?
Daniel on November 6, 2007 at 10:32 am

Type-o
2.5 BILLION, Not million
And if you don’t think the Fishing industries needs that money, you should try walking in there shoes sometime. Most people don’t have what it takes.
As for feeling sorry for the poor oil company, and the poor share holders, How many of them even know where Prince William Sound is.
I all ways wondered how Prince William feels about this issue.
Morris J. Alexie on November 7, 2007 at 6:15 pm

Who’s state is Alaska? The oil companies or the Alaskans? Exxon has to pay! We give them a privilege to tap oil from our Last Frontier. Gas and fuel prices today are too much these days. You and I know that everything is tripled in price up here.

Thank-you for your time,

Morris Alexie
Daniel A. Berry on November 8, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Did you ever clean oil off a young sea otter and it still died. All kinds of sea birds were cleaned and they still died. There was sea life in their bellys that was full of oil. The crab nets were full of dead crabs. Seals and sea lions died from eating what ever they ate.
The eagles were dropping out of the sky fron eatting oil soaked fish. There used to be a lot of these animals , birds and sea life ,not anymore. Even whales died and washed up on the shores. Baby whales also.
When I saw these things happen I felt a lot of pain. I don’t want that to ever happen again. Yes the oil company must pay!
Daniel A. Berry
Daniel on November 14, 2007 at 7:39 am

Less we forget, the dirty tricks that were pulled and the state was in bed with Exxon. For instance, When it all went down the day it happened and the weeks that followed the restricted the air space to period of high tide only. The media eat it up. Saying things weren’t that bad.
There are families out there with video of this and many other lies yet the media does nothing.
they come up to our towns and promise a pro Alaska/ pro fishing industry inter views and investigations then there producers turn it around into something ugly.
As for the Wall street journal, there writer they sent sold his soul and i would piss on there building if it was on fire.
Daniel on November 14, 2007 at 7:42 am

Less we forget, the dirty tricks that were pulled and the state was in bed with Exxon. For instance, When it all went down the day it happened and the weeks that followed they restricted the air space to period of high tide only. The low tied revieled the devistation but Exxon and our Government could’t have that on national TV. The media eat it up. Saying things weren’t that bad.
There are families out there with video of this and many other lies yet the media does nothing.
they come up to our towns and promise a pro Alaska/ pro fishing industry inter views and investigations then there producers turn it around into something ugly.
As for the Wall street journal, there writer they sent sold his soul and i wouldn’t piss on there building if it was on fire.
Daniel on November 14, 2007 at 7:51 am

On more little tid-bit. The reson the responce was so slow once the anouncement happened the crew of the Exxon needed time to get the Hatch covers secured on the cargo holes. When they hit the reif the oil slamed into the lids on deck and blew them off there tanks and the oil spilled out of the tanks and onto the deck of this huge Tanker. Restricted Air space, they didn’t want the public seeing the crew using fire hozes washing the oil of the deck and into the sound. they scrubbed the ship from front to back before the media got a chance to film anything.