Good Citizen Exxon? You gotta be kidding

In a bizarre story of corporate double-talk, a group called the National Safety Council has awarded Exxon the Green Cross for Safety award for "excellence in safety, security, health and environmental performance".  The National Safety Council thinks Exxon is a stellar corporate citizen.  The only thing Exxon has excelled at is getting massively rich plundering the world and polluting the environment.  Or maybe they are excellent in defending themselves in class action litigation - they managed to drag out the Exxon Valdez settlement for 20 years, and over 8,000 of the affected people in Alaska have died since the spill, never getting their settlement. 

It turns out the National Safety Council is a group of corporate plunderers, whose board is made up of Exxon executives and representatives of other stellar corporate citizens like Dow Chemical, Exelon Nuclear, and DuPont. Irony lives.

Exxon to Arkansas, Gee Sorry

Pipelines are great for the economy, maybe not so great for ordinary people.  A pipeline rupture intruded into the lives of some ordinary people in Arkansas and they got a taste of life in Corporate America.

“That neighborhood was like a scene from ‘The Walking Dead,’” state Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Wednesday after visiting the Little Rock suburb of Mayflower. “I have been reminded by Exxon’s representatives that this is a relatively small spill and cleanup is going just great,” McDaniel said. “I hope they realize that to the homeowners in this area, this is not small — it is catastrophic. And for those who fear for their drinking water, it is not ‘great.’”