. . . I do wonder, why we can't demand these companies pay for their own protective measures or cease operations. Lacking any such responses, I can't help think we'd wish we'd either demanded those actions or even supplied the resources if something catastrophic did occur.

Irony Alert: A Delaware Oil Company Feels Threatened by Sea Level Rise

Oil companies seem to think they have the most to gain by denying climate disruption. Just look at the lengths that the oil-rich Koch brothers have gone to in order to suppress climate action, spending and saying anything to derail any policy tackling the climate crisis.

Why? Well, carbon pollution caused by burning fossil fuels is a key cause of the climate crisis -- and without action, they’ll be free to drill, extract, frack, refine, transport, and burn oil as much as they want. Apparently, it’s easy for them to ignore the cascade of problems their polluting behavior creates when they’ve got profits to be made. But, as it happens, such irresponsible, deeply flawed logic eventually comes full circle.

In Delaware, severe storms are eroding the shoreline and affecting homes and businesses up and down the coast - including the business of an oil refinery. The functioning of the Delaware City Refining Company property just south of New Castle, a division of PBF Energy, is threatened by increasing extreme weather. In other words, climate disruption is hitting the doorstep of its source.

link: http://sierraclub.typepad.com/compass/2014/07/irony-alert-a-delaware-oil-company-feels-threatened-by-sea-level-rise.html

Any money they've spent on buying ads, supporting climate change-denying politicians, hiring lobbyists, etc.

Cheney would have personally seen to it Halliburton would
have been awarded an emergency no-bid contract.

The second one is "you." Time for the Almighty Free Market to intervene here, methinks. Those stalwart captains of industry shouldn't be looking for handouts. Makes 'em all dependent and stuff. Maybe next time they'll make better choices on siting their refinery and putting such a heavy carbon load in the atmosphere. It's for their own good, really.