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 ExxonMobil was formerly Standard Oil, the Rockefeller oil 
 company that was 
 half-owner of IG Farben - the oil, pharmaceutical and munitions 
 conglomerate 
 that built Auschwitz and 40 other slave labor death camps. More 
 proof that 
 David Rockefeller runs NYC via his banks (JP Morgan/Chase - 
 another major 
 supporter of the Nazis), oil companies (ExxonMobil), BIDs (The 
 Alliance for 
 Downtown NY), and fake think tank-advocacy groups (Manhattan 
 Institute and 
 the Central Park Conservancy both heavily financed by Chase Bank 
 and various 
 Rockefeller family members). It would appear that despite being a 
 multi-billionaire, even Bloomberg is little more than a puppet 
 for 
 Rockefeller, as was Giuliani and as is GW Bush. And let's not 
 forget that 
 the WTC was conceived and built by David and Nelson Rockefeller 
 to enhance 
 their Downtown business hub concept centered on the Chase Bank 
 building and 
 that their oil company dealings with the Saudis going back to 
 the 1930's has 
 a great deal to do with the entire Middle East conflict and with 
 9/11. -RL 
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 NY Post 
 MAYOR MULLS STICKING US WITH OIL-SPILL BILL 
 By SAM SMITH 
  
 BIG DEAL: Mayor Bloomberg, buying at the debut of The Container 
 Store in 
 Chelsea yesterday, is eyeing an oil-soaked Brooklyn site for a 
 power plant. 
  
 November 23, 2003 -- EXCLUSIVE 
  
 Mayor Bloomberg wants to saddle taxpayers with the liability for 
 the largest 
 urban oil spill in the country and let the culprit, ExxonMobil, 
 off the 
 hook. 
  
 In a Nov. 13 letter to the company, obtained by The Post, the 
 mayor's office 
 said it wants to buy a 9.8-acre property in Greenpoint, 
 Brooklyn, from 
 ExxonMobil that is saturated with 17 million gallons of oil - 6 
 million more 
 gallons than was spilled from the tanker Exxon Valdez when it 
 ran aground 
 off Alaska. 
  
 "The City of New York is very serious about acquiring the site 
 from 
 ExxonMobil," states Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff in the letter. 
  
 The city wants the land for a new power plant. 
  
 But TransGas Energy, which has proposed building a plant in 
 Brooklyn, said 
 it's not interested in the Greenpoint site because of the length 
 of time it 
 would take to clean the oil, around 20 years by most estimates. 
  
 It wants to build at the former Bayside Fuel Depot, which sits 
 in the middle 
 of a stretch of Williamsburg waterfront that the mayor plans to 
 rezone for 
 new housing and parks and hopefully future Olympic venues. 
  
 At recent hearings to discuss TransGas' 1,100 megawatt plant, a 
 city 
 official said the mayor had personally telephoned ExxonMobil 
 about the 
 Greenpoint deal, according to two people at the hearings, which 
 ended 
 Thursday. The mayor's office would not comment. 
  
 Under the proposed deal with ExxonMobil, the city would buy the 
 site at fair 
 market value, less the estimated cost of the cleanup, which 
 would be 
 calculated by an independent assessor. 
  
 The city would take on the cleaning and the open-ended liability 
 from any 
 health problems, accidents, or property damage resulting from 
 the spill, the 
 cleanup or construction on the site. 
  
 "A deal that hastens the cleanup could be a good thing," 
 admitted Councilman 
 David Yassky, whose district includes the spill site. "But under 
 no 
 circumstances should city taxpayers have to take on the 
 liability for the 
 spill." 
  
 Beginning in the 1950s, millions of gallons of oil leaked from a 
 storage 
 facility on the property. The spill has spread underground to 
 about 44 
 acres. 
  
 ExxonMobil was ordered by the state in the early '90s to clean 
 the site. The 
 company said it has been cleaning since the '70s but has only 
 removed about 
 3 million gallons. 
  
 The city wants the TransGas plant located in Greenpoint and 
 insists the 
 cleanup of the site and construction of the plant could go on 
 simultaneously. 
  
 Environmental consultants contacted by The Post said the plant 
 construction, 
 which would involve driving piles into the ground, should not be 
 done at the 
 same time as the cleaning. 
  
 Critics, including local residents, the environmental group 
 Riverkeeper and 
 the New York Public Interest Research Group, contend the city is 
 not acting 
 in the public interest letting ExxonMobil off the hook and in 
 opening up 
 taxpayers to liability. 
  
 There have been no studies to measure the health impact of the 
 spill or the 
 damage to surrounding areas where the oil plume has spread, but 
 oil slicks 
 are often seen in nearby Newtown Creek. 
  
 In response to questions from The Post, the mayor's office 
 issued a 
 statement saying, "The letter is a proposal and we plan to have 
 subsequent 
 conversations with ExxonMobil to finalize the details of that 
 proposal." 
  
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