Comment by causesothere
3 hours ago
The company should be paying until the damage is made whole. The root cause of why it happened should be prevented industry wide, mechanically. If that's lax safety culture or profit motivations, remove them. Hold the executive team to account -- any board member or executive at the time of the incident should be indebted until the damage is repaired.
The assets and people will go elsewhere? Saddle them with the debt.
I think that there are some requirements to have these companies pay for insurance against ecological disasters. I think this has to be part of the solution. It looks like it exists in some form but 2011 was prior to ol’ small hands’ graft - https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-V/subchapter-B... .