Posted on 11/05/2019 7:05:54 PM PST by yesthatjallen
HONOLULU - The city plans to file a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies aimed at holding them “accountable for the costs and consequences” of climate change.
Maui County previously announced similar plans, and other municipalities and states have done the same in a bid to recoup and the real and anticipated costs of a warming planet.
Oil companies have called the suits baseless.
At a news conference Tuesday, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said fossil fuel companies have known for decades about the impacts of climate change.
“We’re starting the first steps to protect our island of Oahu, our state of Hawaii and our planet,” Caldwell said.
Josh Stanbro, Honolulu’s chief resilience officer, said the islands are already starting to feel the impacts of climate change.
“California is on fire, the Bahamas were nearly wiped off the map, and Houston has been hit by three 500-year floods in the past three years,” Stanbro said.
“It is devastating to find out that big oil knew these impacts would occur as far back as the 1960s, and yet they chose to undermine the science and sow confusion instead of becoming responsible corporate citizens. This lawsuit won’t stop climate change from happening, but it will help pay for the protection and preparation of our citizens as climate disasters continue to come our way.”
A resolution will be introduced to the full City Council to support the lawsuit.
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Prove in court that the notion of man-made climate change is a hoax.
They’ll be under water before it gets concluded. But, quit shipping gas and oil to hawaii.
They do know they will have to actually prove their claim, right?!?
I look forward to the governments being denied access to gas, heating oil, and any electricity for their buildings.
Time to stop shipping petroleum products to Hawaii.
Let Honolulu furnish the proof as to what caused the “climate change.....or pound sand for the money they want.
If nothing else, just get the plaintiffs into a deposition and ask them why they haven't outlawed fossil fuels entirely.
There are lawyers who’s whole career is built around this industry shakedown case. They made billions from their share of the Big Tobacco settlement.
It’s a story of litigation nationally that’s been in the works for years.
Houston’s flooding is caused by them building houses in the floodplain and pouring so much concrete around the floodplain it floods worse than it would have 50 years ago.
Out of concern, petroleum companies should stop shipping gas to cities until the case go through court. F’em!
All they need is a fellow traveller judge presiding in ordee to survive demurrers and motions for summary judgment and to deny pretrial motions to exclude fake science “experts”
The jury pool has already made up their minds.
Now the same greedy, devil may care gang is behind these opioid suits as well. These people are a blight on the justice system, always looking for one more gravy train.
Then stop shipping any hydrocarbon products to Hawaii. Let them get back to nature.
Pull all military forces out of Hawaii.
After all what good are they with out fuel.
First of all, what is a ‘resilience officer’? Some cockamamie title bestowed on a career bureaucrat deadbeat? I used to have the same idealistic mental picture of Hawaii as a lot of people. Now I realize that the only way that’ll ever come to pass will be if a monster tsunami hits the island chain and scours it clean of all the leftist buttplugs that run it.
Oh Dear God. If the oil companies stop all oil deliveries to Hawaii, their economy will collapsed in 3 days
Can I sue the abortion industry for the 70,000,000 Americans they minused and who therefore aren’t here to contribute to my social security checks?
quit shipping gas and oil to Hawaii.
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That’s the solution.
OK, then cut off all fossil fuel shipments to Honolulu until the lawsuit is withdrawn or settled.
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