Tragic tale for these poor chaps. Their village is slipping away into the Arctic Sea due to global warming, so they are suing two dozen oil, power and coal companies. They claim that the large amounts of greenhouse gases that the companies emit are adding to the already known global warming problem, which essentially threatens the community’s existence.
The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, sued Exxon Mobil Corporation, eight other oil companies, 14 power companies and one coal company in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco.
Kivalina is a traditional Inupiat Eskimo village of about 390 people about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage. It’s built on an 8-mile barrier reef between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina River.
Talk about getting rich quick, I would like to hear what these people do with all that money [if they win, "Relocation costs have been estimated at $400 million or more."]. I vote they move down to the Bahamas, or better, Fiji. I’ve always hoped that one day I will live on a nice beach in Fiji, maybe one day my dreams will come true and I’ll marry rich or something. I can’t wait for summer.
Tags: alaska, Arctic Sea, coal, eskimos, exxon mobil, gas, Global Warming, inupiat, Kivalina, law, law suit, power, suit
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