Nice little shakedown they have going on. What if the companies decide to stop selling their products in the county, which includes the big city of Portland which wouldn’t be able to operate without fossil fuels?
Multnomah County sues fossil fuel companies for nearly $52 billion over heat dome
Multnomah County is seeking nearly $52 billion in damages and future costs for climate adaptation in a lawsuit that filed Thursday against more than a dozen fossil fuel companies to hold them accountable for the unprecedented heat dome event in 2021.
Lawyers for the county are moving forward with a lawsuit against 17 oil and gas companies alleging that the burning of their fossil fuel products, which leads to greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, was a substantial contributor to a heat dome event roughly two years ago. Ninety-six people died across Oregon as a result of the heat dome, with the majority living in Multnomah County.
The lawsuit claims the fossil fuel companies “rapaciously sell fossil fuel products and deceptively promote them as harmless to the environment,” leading to disasters like the heat dome.
During Thursday’s board meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to declare climate change a public nuisance, clearing the way for the attorneys to file a lawsuit against the fossil fuel companies. Those include Shell, Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil — the United States’ largest oil and gas producing company, which predicted global warming as early as 1977 and also knew the dangers of burning fossil fuels, according to a 2016 Pulitzer finalist investigation by Inside Climate News.
So, all the cities and towns in the county will immediately ban the use of fossil fuels, right? No fossil fueled vehicles, regardless of whether privately owned or government, right? No garbage trucks, not police cars, no ambulances, no fire trucks, no buses, no travel for the county commissioners, at least if they use fossil fuels, right? They’ll shut down Portland International Airport, and the little ones in the county, right? How about all the shipping ports?
Oh, and how about all the thousands of products made with petroleum, such as all the clothes and smartphones and computers? Paints? Shoes? Seriously, it’s time for the fossil fuels companies to play hardball and refuse to see fuel and oils to the county.
Thanks to those pushing this nonsense, Multnomah County is headed into the toilet and dragging the rest of Oregon down with it, this is just their latest in a long history of foolishness.
Stop all deliveries of oil to Portland. This idiocy would be reversed in a couple days. There would be badly needed recall elections in a few weeks.
amazing isnt it. money will bring the dead back to life.
Do you recommend we ban all wrongful death lawsuits or just those associated with global warming?
In general, certain things must be proven by the plaintiffs:
1. A person or entity behaved negligently or committed an intentional wrongful act
2. Their actions were the direct cause of a death
3. There are damages associated with the death
The county will have a hard time proving these three things. Was it an intentional wrongful act? Was the 116 F temperature directly responsible for the deaths?
No, just ban all wrongful death lawsuits based on religion, SUCH AS “global warming”. (Are we back to that now? I thought the approved term was “CLIMATE CATASTROPHE!!!!!!”.)
You’re welcome.
I’ve always called it global warming. Judges can dismiss trivial suits.
Dear Elwood:
These idiots, and you, are participating in the destruction of civilization.
Be proud.
Lewis,
Is that all you got?? LOL.
Name-calling and doom/gloom.
Would you, fascist that you are, ban all lawsuits against corporations?
Dear Elwood:
Do you still beat your wife????
Lewis,
No. I stopped when she bought that Walther PPK.
Oh, the irony…
Simple solution to this piracy. ALL the “fossil fuel companies” need to simply refuse to sell or deliver ANY product they produce to ANY entity anywhere in the county.