Inter Press Service: Environmental groups are sounding alarms about conflicting reports on the size and seriousness of an oil spill that took place late last week in the southern U.S. state of Arkansas.
The spill has generated particular interest because it emanates from a pipeline carrying "tar sands" oil, a particularly heavy and environmentally destructive oil composed of bitumen and diluted with lighter elements.A lot of the people we talked to said, "We didn't even know there was a pipeline under our homes.'...