The case is closed, finally! Though it was an unintentional slaughter, it never curtails the enormity of ExxonMobil’s crime in subjecting 85 migratory birds, including waterfowl, hawks and owls, to hellish torments and ultimately killing them. It resurrected those fading memories of 1989 Exxon Valdez Spill wherein 36,000 birds were abused to death. Nonetheless, the world’s largest oil and gas company shells out $600,000 in fines and community service payments.
It’s a moral victory for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since the five-year bloodbath was made to compensate. Still, it never compensates for the irreparable loss hurled at the trans-migratory eco-life. Succumbing to hydrocarbons in exposed natural gas well reserve pits and waste water storage facilities in Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas over the past five years, the wildlife suffered beyond measure.
Having spent $2.5 million already, ExxonMobil now offers an environmental compliance plan to prevent bird deaths at its production sites.
Image Source: RIT/Sculptures by BJH/Rodger Dodger
Via: PennEnergy
