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To: wiz who wrote (85554)	11/16/2000 10:02:51 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 132070

wiz, Did exxon pay you to go through the motions of fishing, using resources etc? They would be better to inspect your rax returns and pay you what you made plus depreciation of the fishing tackle that you took. I agree that exxon is dragging it out, but that is because the lawyers are going for such ahuge amount that they have to fight.....since it is the insurers who pay...they live forever. What is needed is an arbitration that looks at what you lost in wages and depreciation over 10 the years and give you that over 10 years as a staged wage. That would allow you to either train for other work or keep your boat etc. Of course what about the cash sales of fish that no-one delared....gone gone gone. In addition, The oil pumped out was settled, filtered and the sea water pumped back. As a chemical engineer I know you do this so that you actually suck fresh water into the holes in the boat to minimize any more oil losses. In addition they used concentric barriers with pump out of the gap between. Some oil emulsifies and scatters, some is beached, and some sinks as lomps to the bottom. Oil seeps into the sea from 100,000 small zones and collectively that seepage is about 100 milion barrels per year. It is so spread out that it bothers no-one except in the Arab seas where it is a lot more that what the arabs lose into the sea by bad methods. The arab seas over the millennia have learned to use and tolerate this seepage as has the sea in general. Highly concentrated spills like the Valdez are a local catastrophe......how many miles of bottom and beach were damaged for how long? has the fishery come back yet? or has it been overfished? Here in Canada the politicians were so stupid that they permitted the cod to be fished to near extinction. This threw thousands of fishermen out of work. Why? it was politically unacceptable to limit the fishery in advance as that would have meant placing limits on fishermen who voted. So they all went down the drain as the seals did not stop eating and they also stopped killing the baby seals, so the overfished Cod fishery may never come back as the seals eat them as fast as they can and the seals are growing in number and easting all species. Bill Bill

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