Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/27/2010 2:06:26 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo village of 400 perched on a barrier island north of the Arctic Circle, is accusing two dozen fuel and utility companies of helping to cause the climate change that it says is accelerating the island’s erosion.
Blocks of sea ice used to protect the town’s fragile coast from October on, but “we don’t have buildup right now, and it is January,” said Janet Mitchell, Kivalina’s administrator. “We live in anxiety during high-winds seasons.”
The village wants the companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, and many others, to pay the costs of relocating to the mainland, which could amount to as much as $400 million.
The case is one of three major lawsuits filed by environmental groups, private lawyers and state officials around the nation against big producers of heat-trapping gases. And though the village faces a difficult battle, the cases are gathering steam.
In recent months, two federal appeals courts reversed decisions by federal district courts to dismiss climate-change lawsuits, allowing the cases to go forward. In Connecticut, environmental lawyers joined forces with attorneys general of eight states and the City of New York seeking a court order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In Mississippi, Gulf Coast property owners claim that industry-produced emissions that contribute to climate change increased the potency of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
And although a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., dismissed the Kivalina suit in October, the village is appealing the decision.
Tracy D. Hester, who has taught a course in climate lawsuits at the University of Houston law school, said that with the issues “very much in play” in three circuits of the federal court system, “the game pieces are being set for eventual Supreme Court review.”
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Perfectly understandable, right? I mean the last time my wife and I moved it cost us 2 million dollars...that's the going rate isn't it?
global warming ping
No, they're not....it's some deep-pockets-chasing class action lawyers who are seeking billions for themselves, as always.
Kivalina failed to hold back the Arctic Blast two weeks ago and that cost me lots of money. Blew an awning down. Gonna’ cost them ol’ boys lots of money.
hmmmm....
>Blocks of sea ice used to protect the town’s fragile coast from October on, but “we don’t have buildup right now, and it is January,” said Janet Mitchell, Kivalina’s administrator. “We live in anxiety during high-winds seasons.”
Liar, liar pants on fire!!!!!!!
Arctic ice Jan1 and Jan. 26th
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=01&fd=01&fy=2010&sm=01&sd=26&sy=2010
"I filed these cases because I expect and want to win in court," Mr. Pawa said. "I’m a litigator, and that’s what I do."
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The white man put them there in 1951(?) for Canada’s sovereignty and now has to move them .... go figure.
The village wants the companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, and many others, to pay the costs of relocating to the mainland, which could amount to as much as $400 million.
At a cost of 1 million $ each??
They lived in government housing.....welfare state....so they could hunt and fish year round.....
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