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Monday, March 24, 2014

BP, not Exxon, caused the Exxon Valdez disaster


BP, not Exxon,
caused the Exxon Valdez disaster

By Greg Palast
Monday, 24. March 2014 | Read the full story at TruthDig
Two decades ago I was the investigator for the legal team that sold you the bullshit that a drunken captain was the principal cause of the Exxon Valdez disaster, the oil tanker crackup that poisoned over a thousand miles of Alaska’s coastline 25 years ago today, on March 24, 1989.

The truth is far uglier, and the real culprit—British Petroleum, now BP—got away without a scratch to its reputation or to its pocketbook.http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/25_years_after_exxon_valdez_the_hidden_culprit_was_bp_20140323?mc_cid=a6787843f3&mc_eid=4ee9199723

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