text: Seriously, COP just took $17 B and added it to their $35 B of net assets, so these sites just lost nearly $50 B in capital backing and are soliciting $3 or 3.5 B to shore things up.  I think the risk that the taxpayer is going to end up owning an environmental disaster in the future (agreed, not tomorrow, but in a few years) have just increased measurably.