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Exxon Says Ruptured Pipeline in Arkansas Carried Canadian Dilbit
2013-03-30 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A pipeline that ruptured and leaked at least 80,000 gallons of oil into central Arkansas on Friday was transporting a heavy form of crude from the Canadian tar sands region, ExxonMobil told InsideClimate News. Local police said the line gushed oil for 45 minutes before being stopped, according to media reports [3]. Crude oil ran through a subdivision of Mayflower, Ark., about 20 miles north of Little Rock. Twenty-two homes were evacuated, but no one was hospitalized, Exxon spokesman Charlie Engelmann...
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