Limiting Liability
Nice catch by Susie Madrak of a post at Think Progress. The Arkansas spill is covered by the Oil Spill Fund but, because the pipeline was carrying tar sands / diluted bitumen, not oil, Exxon wasn’t required to pay the tax that funds the clean-ups.
The Keystone XL will be in the same category, they won’t have to pay into the Oil Spill Fund. Their spills will be paid for by other people because the tar sands corporations bought the right Congresscritter to put in an amendment to exempt them.
