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Here’s an Onion article on an outspoken, oil-covered otter:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/shell_executives_accuse_oil?utm_source=a-section

…which reminded me of an actual statement made by an oil exec in the aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Slick in February 1969:

Fred Hartley, the president of Union Oil, traveled to Washington to appear before a subcommittee on air and water pollution to testify on the episode, which he put off as “Mother Earth letting the oil come out.” Fed up with the outrage over the oil slick his company had created, Hartley commented, “I’m amazed at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.”

You can read more about the Santa Barbara slick, the infamous Cuyahoga River fire, the controversial People’s Park riots, and other ecology-related episodes from that year in 1969: The Year Everything Changed.