Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's decision to prosecute a major Marcellus Shale natural-gas driller for a 2010 wastewater spill has sent shock waves through the industry.
But environmentalists Wednesday hailed the prosecution of the Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary as a departure from the soft treatment they say the industry has received from Pennsylvania regulators.
Face it the financial penalties are a small fraction of the profit gleaned from ignoring environmental protections. But the prospect of losing ones freedom as if one were a common criminal is another aspect altogether. This may be the way to put the brakes on these corporations turning our water into poison and the earths crust into a shake room. Criminal penalties, I like the sound of that.
Criminal penalties
Criminal penalties
Criminal penalties
Criminal penalties
Criminal penalties
We could expand this to those that steal with a pen in lieu of a gun as well...