So much for Big Oil's high priced marketing campaign about being environmentally friendly. The reality is they are one of the more environmentally destructive forces around the world. BBC:
Oil giant Syncrude Canada has been found guilty of causing the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed in a toxic settling pond in northern Alberta.
The ducks died after being coated in a toxic lather when they landed in the waste pond in April 2008.
Judge Ken Tjosvold said the oil company did not take the appropriate steps to deter the birds from the area.
Mr Tjosvold said the company had cut back "substantially on a number of deterrents" in recent years.
