So, is this the point that the companies stop selling their products to, at a minimum, the city of Boulder and San Miguel County? Why would they do business with entities that are suing them? Let them deal with having no fossil fuels and see how that works?
Boulder is one big step closer to putting Exxon and Suncor on trial for climate change
After more than six years of legal snags and delays, three local governments in Colorado have cleared a major hurdle in a landmark lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy accountable for damages caused by climate change.
Judge Robert R. Gunning, a district court judge hearing the case in Boulder, rejected requests from both companies to dismiss the lawsuit on Friday. The ruling allows the case to proceed, setting the stage for a trial that will consider whether fossil fuel companies should pay some of the costs related to climate-related disasters like floods and wildfires.
Boulder County first filed the lawsuit in 2018 in cooperation with the City of Boulder and San Miguel County. The complaint argues Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy spent decades misleading the public about the dangers of unchecked fossil fuel consumption. The lawsuit further demands the companies pay unspecified financial damages to fund local efforts to recover from recent climate-related disasters and brace for more frequent climate-fueled catastrophes in the future. (snip)
“Climate change affects every single person in the community,” said Boulder County Commissioner Ashley Stolzmann. “What lawsuits can do is help to shift the cost burden because low-income, poorer families shouldn’t have to bear the cost of this crisis we’re facing alone.”
So, a shakedown, with none of these governmental entities saying word one about them ending their own use of fossil fuels. Weird, eh?
‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’
George Orwell –“1984”
Honest men invest their own money into a corporation in order to gain a share of the profits. Communists just seize it. Neo-communists use hand picked courts to accomplish that theft.
History does repeat itself. This is like when the commie courts courts attacked BIG TOBACCO forcing them to both admit and pay damages for the effects of using their products.
But of course that tobacco ruling came to late for many Americans, who if they are still alive, are addicted to the nicotine drug.
H, you are so full of shit. Your analogy is so wrong it is impossible to say where it starts and stops.
In any event you fail to acknowledge that the suits against tobacco just yielded money for the state. Said money the tobacco companies collected from the users and passed it own to the government who never shared a nickel with the folks who had been damaged.
Such will be the case here. Get ready for $10. gas.
You are absolutely correct James Lewis. I had smoked since I was 13 years old and I had COPD and emphysema. You know how much my cash settlement was from the cigarette companies? Zero! However I went to college with a lawyer who was in on the lawsuit a new cleared a cool $20 million. All the money went to lawyers in the government and out of the government and the politicians and advocates. Nothing went to the victims.