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June 16, 2010

Exxon CEO: Oil Companies "Not Well Equipped" to Handle Disasters
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In other testimony, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson admitted that major oil
companies are unprepared to deal with environmental disasters at their
drilling sites. Tillerson was questioned by Democratic Congress member
Bart Stupak of Michigan.

Rex Tillerson: "When these things happen, we are not well equipped to
deal with them."

Rep. Bart Stupak: "So when these happen, these worst case scenarios, we
can’t handle them. Correct?"

Rex Tillerson: "We are not well equipped to handle them. There will be
impacts, as we are seeing. And we’ve never represented anything
different than that. That’s why the emphasis is always on preventing
these things from occurring, because when they happen, we’re not very
well equipped to deal with them."



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