Arkansas Neighborhood Oil Spill Video

[mhigley]

After spilling in the Yellowstone River last week, Exxon decided to make the Easter Egg hunt in this Arkansas neighborhood a little more challenging. "Keep looking honey. Did you check under that black glob over there?" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30m8U6VP3E[/youtube]

 

[thankyouOB]

Exxon pr to the rescue.
Their bs is thicker than crude.

 

[AndyH]

Thanks for heads-up.

This was another Canadian tar sands diluted bitumen spill, as was the spill from the derailed train in Minnesota last week.

The same stuff that spilled into the Kalamazoo river in Michigan in 2010 and resulted in a 30 mile stretch that the EPA labels as "permanently polluted."

http://www.epa.gov/enbridgespill/
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/aswift/federal_officials_at_the_envir.html
http://environmentreport.org/enbridge_oil_spill.php

It’s been a year since a pipeline owned by Canadian company Enbridge Energy ruptured, spilling more than 843,000 gallons of tar sands oil into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River. In this three part series, we explore what life is like now for people who live near the river, what the spill might mean for the health of wildlife and the ecosystem, and the status of lawsuits and claims filed against Enbridge.

More here:
http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=876

 

[toasty]

 

[DaveinOlyWA]

Increased drilling aand consumption will only increase these incidences but after the Gulf, not expected to learn much from this "insignificant" event

 

[dgpcolorado]

If this happened to my property I'd be really upset. Can you imaging trying to get the crude out of the soil and porous concrete? I wonder if there is any recourse beyond suing Exxon?

 

[DaveinOlyWA]

If this happened to my property I'd be really upset. Can you imaging trying to get the crude out of the soil and porous concrete? I wonder if there is any recourse beyond suing Exxon?

"if" they are lucky and the ground is not too porous, they "might" be able to get away with scraping the topsoil, concrete, etc. and replacing it all which would take 2 months if they were in a hurry.

until that happens, the area would be toxic and i would NEVER let my child play anywhere near there.

the sheer volume of the spill will most likely see major excavation that will last far into the Summer to make it habitable again.

 

[dhanson865]

Sorry, topsoil replacement wouldn't be enough for me. I'd expect the company/companies responsible to buy my property so I could move elsewhere.

I can't believe that guy that lives "across the street" thinks "his house is apparently unaffected". Just ask him how accurate that statement is if he has to switch jobs and needs to sell his house.

Nobody with kids and most young to middle age adults wouldn't want to buy a house next to a hazardous waste site and even if they spent millions cleaning it up no one would trust that and take a chance for decades to follow.

Property values in the entire neighborhood will drop due to this. If the pipeline passes through or near other neighborhoods that aren't directly affected property values will drop there as well just due to perceived risk.

 

[AndyH]

I'd love to see every bit of that dirt get hauled out and dumped into the front lobby of Transcanada, Valero, and the other companies here on the coast that are refining this garbage. Returning lost product is the least a law-abiding citizen can do... :evil:

 

[cwerdna]

http://www.businessinsider.com/mayflower-arkansas-exxon-oil-spill-2013-4?op=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; has some more horrifying pics.

 

[AndyH]

There's more in the tarsands thread as well. Exxon owns the spill security folks; owns the local police. There's a press black-out and no-fly zone; journalists are being threatened with arrest if they get close to the spill.

Local residents are not being told what was in the pipeline; some have become sick. Dilbit is in the local waterway (some from the spill, some from the clean-up crew letting it flow into the storm drains, some from powerwashing the streets.

Temporary dams constructed to prevent flow of 'oil' into lake have underdrain culverts installed - good for crude but bad for dilbit - bitumen sinks and flows along the bottom. Do they know what they're cleaning up?!

There are unconfirmed reports that Exxon is actually pumping the Dilbit recovered from land into an adjacent wetland.

http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=876&start=180

 

[AndyH]

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130410/cove-where-exxon-oil-has-been-found-part-lake-conway

More lies from Exxon; spill larger than 'expected', etc. etc.

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/2...s-tremendous-operating-pressure-oil-pipelines

 

[AndyH]

http://priceofoil.org/2013/04/11/ex...tical-ad-following-mayflower-tar-sands-spill/

Amidst reports of media intimidation at the site of the Mayflower, Arkansas tar sands oil spill, ExxonMobil has now taken to bullying local Little Rock television stations into canceling the airing of a satirical but cutting advertisement critical of their business practices.

See a copy of the ad here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXV6FW9Vg0I[/youtube]

 

[AndyH]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rocky...ater-arkansas_b_3378858.html?utm_hp_ref=green

“Our test results show the chemicals we are finding in the lake are exactly the same ones we tested for in the tar sands oil that flowed through town after the oil spill,” Smith says. He also says his results match some of the internal documents that Greenpeace released last month that indicate elevated levels of chemicals were found in the lake.

http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/05/...ar-sands-spill-yet-claimed-area-was-oil-free/

A new batch of documents received by Greenpeace in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has revealed that Exxon downplayed the extent of the contamination caused by the ruptured pipeline. Records of emails between Arkansas’ DEQ and Exxon depict attempts by Exxon to pass off press releases with factually false information. In a draft press release dated April 8, Exxon claims “Tests on water samples show Lake Conway and the cove are oil-free.” However, internal emails from April 6 show Exxon knew of significant contamination across Lake Conway and the cove resulting from the oil spill.

 

[dgpcolorado]

New York Times: Amid Pipeline Debate, Two Costly Cleanups Forever Change Towns