Posted on 09/19/2018 6:50:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Petroleum producers targeted by Boulder and Boulder County in a bid to hold them responsible for current and future costs associated with climate change are trying in a recent court filing to push the blame back on virtually anyone who uses fossil fuels.
In a filing dated Sept. 10, the Exxon Mobil Corporation and Suncor Energy that is labeled a defendants' designation of "non-parties at fault," the corporations deny that they bear any fault for damages cited by Boulder.
But the filing goes further, in saying that the county governments "combust fossil fuels - the alleged root cause of their injuries." Accordingly, the plaintiff governments "are by definition 'at fault' for the alleged damages they claim to have sustained," the filing states.
The companies go on to state that by pinning high greenhouse gas levels on the burning of fossil fuels, the governments "implicate not only themselves, but every single person or entity on the planet that has ever contributed to greenhouse gas emissions" through a wide range of activities.
Those additional responsible parties, the Sept. 10 filing argues, include "emitters and consumers of fossil fuels, producers of electricity, governments and government entities, manufacturers and businesses" such as farms, dairy and transportation.
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just because everyone is doing it is no excuse.
or is it.
shut down all fuel shipments to boulder... just for a few months.
lets see what they say come December.
Other than the cost of the trial, I would recommend going forward with this. Since there is no demonstrable evidence supporting the claim that man is directly influencing the climate, the discovery phase should be quite revealing. I would welcome a full on scientific debate about this and see the arguments on both sides.
Future DSM’s will have Global Warming fear as a discrete diagnosis.
So they are suing themselves?
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