20080827

en 20 años cambian cosas (y otras no)


hoy, luego de 20 años, los ejecutivos de Exxon determinaron pagar el 75% de 507 millones de dolares a los que llegaron como acuerdo, luego que inicialmente se consideraran 4000 millones de dolares como indemnizacion y diversos recursos a la corte de apelaciones llegaran a acordar un total a pagar del 9% del original y sin los intereses de los 20 años, que son 700 millones de dolares adicionales solo considerando los del 9% que van a pagar.

no entran dentro del acuerdo la sociedad Chugach (cooperativa de lugareños dedicada a la marisqueria y exportacion, la cual se fue a quiebra luego del desastre) ni las organizaciones turisticas de Alaska.

y me entero a ultima hora por wikiscanner (organizacion que analiza los patrones de cambio de las paginas de wikipedia segun la direccion de donde fueron hechos los cambios) que exxon realizo diversos cambios en las paginas del exxon valdez y del derrame, cambiando la pagina de la siguiente forma

ORIGINAL:
On March 24 1989, shortly after midnight, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling more than 11 million gallons (42,000 m³) of crude oil. The spill was the largest in U.S. history, and in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez incident Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Exxon Mobil has not yet paid the $5 billion in spill damages it owes to the 32,000 Alaskan fishermen.

DESPUES DEL "ARREGLO" DE EXXON
On March 24 1989, shortly after midnight, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling more than 11 million gallons (42,000 m³) of crude oil. The spill was the largest in U.S. history, and in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez incident Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. ExxonMobil paid $300 million immediately and voluntarily to more than 11,000 Alaskans and businesses affected by the Valdez spill. In addition, the company paid $2.2 billion on the cleanup of Prince William Sound, staying with the cleanup from 1989 to 1992, when the State of Alaska and the U.S. Coast Guard declared the cleanup complete. ExxonMobil also has paid $1 billion in settlements with the state and federal governments. Virtually all Valdez compensatory damages were paid in full within one year of the accident, and the trial court commended ExxonMobil for coming forward "with its people and its pocketbook and doing what had to be done under difficult circumstances."

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