ECOSYSTEM DESTRUCTION

ExxonMobil must stop pursuing drilling and pipeline construction in pristine frontier lands and waters, such as the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge.

Some places of irreplaceable natural value, like the Arctic Refuge, should be off limits to oil and gas development. Yet ExxonMobil spent a staggering $7.9 billion last year on exploration and development, with much of it in pristine ecosystems, such as the Arctic Refuge and the gray whale breeding grounds off Sakhalin Island, Russia. Some of West Africa's last untouched rainforests are threatened by ExxonMobil's Chad Cameroon pipeline, which is partially financed by US taxpayer dollars via the World Bank, while the company's proposed McKenzie pipeline may jeopardize important forests in Alaska and Canada. Thirteen years after the devastating Exxon Valdez catastrophe, Exxon, now ExxonMobil continues to betray the public trust by fighting at every turn payment of clean up costs for the tragedy. Last year it successfully overturned the punitive damages awarded against it. ExxonMobil must pay up and clean up for the ecological and human destruction it has caused world wide.

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Read the factsheet Ecosystem Destruction (html or pdf)

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