The captain of the supertanker, which grounded out on in charted territory, was Joseph Hazelwood. "Plaintiffs alleged that [Joseph] Hazelwood ran the ship aground while drunk." (Kravets, 03A) They also alleged that Mr. Hazelwood had a drinking problem prior to 1989 and Exxon-Valdez was aware of this. Exxon-Valdez had several complaints filed by crewmembers of Mr. Hazelwood that he was drinking on his shifts. Hazelwood was acquitted of operating the supertanker while intoxicated based on the lack of evidence but the point remains that Exxon-Valdez had the opportunity and information to take action on this issue and did not due to the poor management philosophy held by Exxon-Valdez. Exxon-Valdez should be held accoun

table for all punitive damages for exercising loose ethics that resulted in "eleven million gallons of oil" (Nardo, 71) being released over Alaska's Aleutian Range spanning approximately four hundred thousand acres on land and "smeared black goo across roughly fifteen hundred miles of [Alaska's eastern] coastline." (Kravets, 03A)

Even now, the spill has not been remotely cleaned and Exxon-Valdez is still operating meaning that they still have assets. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals "overturn[ed] the five billion dollar award" (Kravets, 03A) in 1991 and lowered the amount and made Exxon-Valdez pay three billion dollars in damages. To this day, Exxon-Valdez has paid approximately "three billion three hundred million dollars" (Kravets, 03A) to repair, clean, compensate, and replace the environment that they destroyed and the people that they hurt physically and financially. The damages and fees are far above three billion dollars or the originally suggested five billion dollar award. According to Dan Pettit, executive director of the Cordova District Fisherman United, Exxon-Valdez's spill has made the Cordova harbour, "a dead zone for the next five hundred years." (Postman, R2) It has become so unprofitable to be a fisherman in Cordova that each member

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