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Originally Posted by NJ.com
(S)peaking...at a town hall event (on March 9)...(Christie) stressed the $225 million the oil giant agreed to pay is on top of the billions Exxon will dole out to pay for cleanup at contaminated sites in New Jersey: "They have to fix everything that they polluted to state standards...(T)here is no cap on what they have to pay...and we're going to get the $225 million on top of it," Christie said. "If you read The New York Times, you'd never know this..."
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Originally Posted by rocknation
So (one of) the choices (was) between...putting a financial cap on the bill versus putting a physical cap on the pollution...
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I have to admit that Christie's holding the right end of the stick on this one: The
Times DIDN'T mention that in the
February 27 article or the
March 4 editorial they published. But they DID mention it
on March 10:
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Mr. Christie...in citing Exxon’s obligation to “fix what they created” without a limit on cost, was referring to the provisions of a 1991 consent order that Exxon reached with the state to clean up the contaminated refinery sites. In announcing the settlement last week, state officials cited that agreement....
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Rachel Maddow and even Jon Stewart noticed -- he pointed out that as an already settled 21-year-old done deal, the cleanup costs never should have been a factor in the lawsuit:
http://www.rocktivity.com/video/christieExxon.webm
Which makes his settling for 2.7 cents on the dollar makes Christie look either more corrupt, more incompetent, or more insane than ever -- take your pick!