Alaska Congressional delegation files brief in support of Exxon Valdez plaintiffs

Fri, January 25, 2008
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories

Senators Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski and Congressman Don Young today filed an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in support of the Exxon Valdez plaintiffs.

Joel Southern, APRN - Washington, DC

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3 Comments to “Alaska Congressional delegation files brief in support of Exxon Valdez plaintiffs”

Hunter on January 26, 2008 at 12:13 am

The reopener is different from the Exxon Valdez class action lawsuit, which is what you refer to here. The reopener is a clause in the state settlement with Exxon which allows the state to collect 100 million more dollars for unforeseen harm and restoration from Exxon.
Donna Ewan on January 28, 2008 at 4:03 am

I am from Copper Center, Alaska, I believe the State of Alaska should get more money from Exxon Valdez incident. People use watch sea otters down in Valdez and watch them play. Now you hardly see one or two. People don’t like to eat fish because the mercury is so high. The vegetation will never be the same around the areas where the oil dumped. We hardly catch as many fish in the Copper River. You see tumors in salmon and wonder how safe is this fish. People in the Copper River eat fish mainly and I have seen a high rate of cancer in our area. I believe Alaska should get all it can because the oil spill costed us allot. We lost our sea otters, fish and other animals. We lost vegetation and land cause of oil spill and none of that can be replaced. Alaska took a big loss in the fish industry. People don’t trust our fish and halibut. People had to sell their fish permits and boats due to oil spill. Yes I believe Alaska deserves to be compensated more.
Paul Harris on February 7, 2008 at 6:19 am

After reading the aforementioned statement dated December 20th 2007 in the Anchorage Daily News, It seems too me that Exxon after 18 years are pulling out all the stops to avoid taking responsibility for the EXXON Valdez disaster. ” May I remind everyone that this was a disaster”. The analogy to this is quite simple, A parent allows a babysitter to take his/her child by car to the park. The babysitter driving recklessly ends up killing the child. Does this mean that the parent is in no way responsible for the child?

Absolutely not the parent is the sole guardian and is fully responsible for their children.

Therefore Exxon needs to take responsibility for their babysitter and for their child (oil.) End the case and settle!