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A Neighborhood Shattered: Families Emptying Out of Oil-Hit Arkansas Town
2013-11-25 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: American property owners battling to stop energy companies from snaking oil pipelines across their lands need only look to Mayflower, Ark., for a window into what can go wrong when pipelines burst in backyards. Eight months after an ExxonMobil pipeline leaked Canadian oil across an Arkansas subdivision, a cloud of uncertainty looms large over the young families, singles and retirees who chose the affordable, decade-old Northwoods neighborhood to establish roots. Nearly half of them have put their...
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