By Penny Fujiko Willgerodt
Executive Director, Prospect Hill Foundation
(This post originally appeared in OnEarth Magazine on June 11, 2010 and is reprinted with permission.)
We at the Gulf Coast Fund have noticed people asking why they should support nonprofit organizations responding to the BP oil drilling disaster when, as they say, “Isn’t BP supposed to be paying for this mess?”
Yes. BP should and will pay. There is no way of knowing when and how. (Exxon-Valdez is a case in point. Exxon/Mobil has still paid only a fraction of what they had promised.)
But one thing we do know is that what BP will eventually pay will in no way address the full costs of this disaster.
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