July 8, 2011
By Bill Mears
Washington (CNN) -- Global energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. (click here) will be forced to face a lawsuit over alleged murder and torture committed by company agents in remote Indonesia, after a federal appeals court said Friday that corporations cannot claim immunity from liability.
A divided 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reinstated a massive lawsuit filed by 15 Indonesian villagers from the oil-rich province of Aceh. They claim government security forces working for Exxon Mobil committed brutal oppression while guarding a natural gas facility in 2000-01....
Common. The CEOs pretend they had nothing to do with deaths. They always are involved. The deaths didn't exist before the oil companies move in and demand atrocities to be committed to obtain their expected wealth.
...At issue is whether foreign nationals can go into U.S. courts to press civil claims stemming from actions overseas by non-American citizens in a time of martial law. The decision will have widespread implications for multinational corporations doing business in other countries....
This is not difficult to understand. Most Americans understand outsourcing and why that happens with CEOs. The CEOs are looking for cheap labor. Well, when American oil companies drill in foreign countries, they are bringing their own labor, HOWEVER, the countries where the drills are built and run HAVE NO REGULATIONS that protect their citizens from health atrocities. In many countries, the leader of the country may not even know the oil will cause cancers. They have no experience in that venue of human health.
BUT, the CEOs are fully aware of the dangers of irresponsible oil drilling. They just don't want anything to get in the way of profits. That's all. American CEOs can kill at will by bending the arm of a country's leadership.
June 21, 2015
By Shasshank Bengali and Mohiuddin Kadar
Two years after a garment factory building collapsed, (click here) killing more than 1,100 people and drawing worldwide attention to dangerous conditions in Bangladesh’s apparel business, authorities Monday charged 42 people with murder in the country’s deadliest industrial disaster....
So, the same greed that drives CEOs to find cheap labor and allow them to look past the deaths while producing their products is the same need for greed that looks for oil where there are no laws to prevent cancer.
Just like the Bangladesh tragedy. Not one CEO was held for murder. Not one. Yet, the profits to the companies allowing their products to be produced in impoverishment were still pouring in.
November 20, 2001
...Results - The RR of all cancer sites (click here) combined was significantly elevated in both men and women in exposed counties. Significantly elevated RR were observed for cancers of the stomach, rectum, skin melanoma, soft tissue and kidney in men and for cancers of the cervix and lymph nodes in women. An increase in haematopoietic cancers was also observed in the population under 10 years in the exposed counties in both males and females.
Conclusion Study results are compatible with a relationship between cancer incidence and living in proximity to oil fields. An environmental monitoring and cancer surveillance system in the area is recommended....
Yes, indeed. I am just one of those hideous bleeding heart liberals that want nothing to do with a corrupt government currently being organized under Trump.
