Maybe it’s because more and more New Yorkers are using mass transit instead of driving. Or it could be payback for the Giants rolling past the Cowboys on the way to the Super Bowl a couple years ago. But whatever the reason is, Exxon is still on the hook for poisoning the Big Apple’s groundwater.
The trial concerns six wells, five of which New York says are poisoned with MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), in and near the Jamaica area of the Borough of Queens. The city says it wants to build a water- treatment plant there called Station 6 that will treat 10 million gallons a day.
Exxon lawyers argued during the trial that the city doesn’t intend to build the water-treatment plant, and that the six wells were turned off and unusable because of contaminants other than MTBE.
Other contaminants? What other contaminants could possibly be in the crystalline waters off of Queens?
The groundwater contains pharmaceutical and human waste, dry-cleaning fluid from a company once located near the site, and 70,000 gallons of diesel fuel spill at a nearby bus depot
Well, at least there’s no dispute the water sample was authentic.
Exxon Loses Phase One of New York Groundwater Trial [Bloomberg]
If anyone needs me I’ll be pounding my snackretary in her barhind.
-Snickers Ad Manager
“The groundwater contains … 70,000 gallons of diesel fuel.” That’s a good sized sample.
@1 – Please don’t do that again. Ever.
Our workplace is officially addicted to Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan’s 10 A.M show.
This hot babe can talk business!
@4 Chicks with (mildly) crooked teeth = hot!
what the fuck greg, you can at least entertain us by dropping some more fuckin f-bombs if you’re going to make us read thru all of these shit-ass stories you keep pulling out of your ass.
What, no one wants to join me for a refreshing dip in the Gowanus Canal?
what a day for comments in the single digits! Greg is probably a nice guy but is just so uninspiring.
5,
Fuckin’ a.
-Phizzle Falcone
Exxon can litigate longer than NYC. They make more money.
Can’t run out the clock vs a municipality. Exxon is just waiting until the City’s cash needs explode (next year?) Then they settle.
Clearly you don’t follow Exxon’s litigation history. If you are a living being, they wait for your death. If you are a legal entity, they’ll beat you, appeal until they beat you, or appeal until you take pennies on the dollar whilst begging for mercy due to cash drain. Ask the Alaskans what a Exxon verdict is good for.
Exxon should sue the government for making them use that fucking MTBE shit.