Comments on: Boston Environmentalists Face Upstream Battle In Big Oil Settlement

By: Daniel Williams

Daniel Williams — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:21:38 +0000

Good story WBUR. The cost of the clean-up should be the responsibility of the Exxon-Mobile corp and funds should be streamlined to that effort. Personally, I avoid the E-M company filling stations whenever possible.

By: Dallas Schwartz

Dallas Schwartz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:06:05 +0000

People, it is NOT FREE money!!! Quit BLAMING the “evil” corporations; who the hell do you think EMPLOY people?? NOT the NIMBY crowd! I am so sick and tired of the “give to the poor & the homeless” cr@p! If a company does harm to a neighborhood then by all means they need to correct that wrong, but to “blame” Exxon for all the ills of the world is pathetic!!!!

By: Carolyn Howard

Carolyn Howard — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:49:02 +0000

This is the type of news I want to read. Bravo Burrell. Hope to hear about a follow-up w/ Mystic Valley Watershed, and the various involved parties regarding whether the grant was submitted to gain the funds. Wouldn’t it be nice if one of the local Universities chipped in whatever is needed to get the grant completed (Public policy or public health class?).

By: ng

ng — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:13:11 +0000

Good story. Another example of how Chris Burrell is keeping true to his social and political commitment to citizenship.

By: gail miller

gail miller — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:54:51 +0000

I just forgot…I think the Valdez spill hasn’t been properly cleaned yet, am I correct? This is what happens when corporations are supposed to be responsible but no one is holding their feet to the fire…sad!

By: gail miller

gail miller — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:53:14 +0000

I believe where you pollute is where you put the money back into restoration. How simple is that? To me, another no brainer. Thanks for doing the story, WBUR.

By: William J. Skocpol

William J. Skocpol — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:52:27 +0000

Submit a *larger* grant proposal to Exxon-Mobil with its billions of dollars of profits per quarter. If that is not funded, start and publicize a nationwide boycott of Exxon-Mobil products. Ask to put an American Flag on the bridge. Then add a sign that says “Where is our mitigation payment?” Or leave some rubber duckies on the bridge so that when it opens it dumps them in the creek. Then make a video of them getting run over by the next tanker that comes by, and put it on YouTube. If corporations are “people” for the purposes of unlimited political speech, then hold them accountable, and launch viral political campaigns against them. It’s called asymmetrical “warfare”. Let’s make it work for real people!