Twenty Years Ago Today

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Twenty years after Exxon Valdez and we’re still shipping it, pumping it, burning it.
Twenty years since James Hansen published a prophetic paper foreseeing what we’re now experiencing. A commenter from my earlier Exxon Valdez post lives on a 30,000 acre XOM oil lease in South Texas and made this film, which I like. This is what he/she had to say:

They dump all the time and don’t care. It’s horrible. Our ground water is full of BTEX and lots of clusters of leukemia around their old leases. The Railroad Commission turns a blind eye. I made a webpage: http://www.RanchoLosMalulos.com. I go around the lease and post stuff so you can all enjoy the soap opera of watching XOM dump. We sample stuff and put the lab results, have professional ground water monitoring wells done, it’s so filthy. Exxon Mobil seems to get away with a lot in this world. Their commercials make me cringe.