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...What you have done is thoroughly evil," pronounced U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown as he sentenced Arthur D. Seale to the maximum: 95 years in prison, without parole. Seale, 45, an ex-Exxon employee, kidnapped senior Exxon official Sidney Reso in his own driveway and stuffed him, bound and bleeding, into a storage locker while negotiating his ransom. The entombed Reso slowly died an agonizing death. Seale and his wife Irene were tracked down by investigators. It was she who divulged the damning details of the kidnapping, and is now in prison, soon to face her own sentencing...
Part of the problem is the disaster's magnitude, but scientists and environmentalists charge that Exxon squandered vast sums on paperwork, ill- conceived cleanup techniques and heroic rescues. It cost the company about $80,000 for each of the several hundred otters it cleaned, many of which died anyway. The use of scalding-hot, pressurized seawater to hose down beaches left many areas almost sterile, empty of the limpets and other intertidal creatures that dwell there...
...amount of money could ever fully compensate for the havoc wreaked by the Valdez spill, but the record $1.025 billion in fines and damages imposed on Exxon by a federal judge last October should have provided the state and federal governments with an extraordinary opportunity to take further protective measures, assess remaining problems and mollify resentful citizens. Instead, the deal has touched off a chorus of outrage from residents and environmentalists, who wanted a minimum of $2 billion, and has ignited a fierce debate over how best to spend the sum. Says biologist Rick Steiner of the University of Alaska...
...without. Trustees say privately that they will probably devote some of the settlement to habitat protection and scientific studies but bank most of it in an endowment. A preliminary plan could be released early next year. But given the competing claims and heated emotions, it, like the Exxon Valdez spill itself, will almost certainly leave in its wake a residue of anger and disappointment...
...should the Exxon Valdez settlement money be spent...