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Mayflower, Ark., Battles Exxon's Backyard Oil Spill
2013-04-06 04:34:43| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
We tend to think of oil spills on a massive scale, so large they are hard to imagine.
Federal lawsuit filed over Arkansas oil spill
2013-04-06 02:35:02| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured last week and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal lawsuit against the company on Friday.
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Exxon Oil Spill Could Be 40% Larger Than Company Estimates, EPA Figures Show
2013-04-06 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: UPDATE: After this story was published, ExxonMobil updated the joint command incident report for Friday. The report now says that approximately 5,000 barrels of oil spilled in Mayflower. Since ExxonMobils Pegasus pipeline ruptured and leaked Canadian oil across an Arkansas suburb a week ago, the company has maintained that only "a few thousand barrels" spilled at the site. "We've had no reason to change that at this stage," Exxon spokesman Charles Engelmann told InsideClimate News on Friday....
Oil Spill Spotlights Keystone XL Issue: Is Canadian Crude Worse?
2013-04-05 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: David Hatfield, an Arkansas wildlife photographer and minister, rose before dawn on Monday and headed to Lake Conway. Even though he had lived nearby for 25 years, Hatfield never knew of the threat now oozing near this 6,700-acre habitat 25 miles north of Little Rock, the largest game and wildlife commission reservoir in the United States. "It surprised me that we had a pipeline here," he said. But ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline has been buried here for more than six decades, quietly propelling...
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Arkansas town in lockdown after oil spill nightmare
2013-04-05 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Theres one Exxon gas station in Mayflower, Ark. Before last Friday, thats likely as close as Mayflower residents got to the multinational oil and gas behemoth ExxonMobil. But after the Pegasus Pipeline burst last Friday, sending thousands of gallons of tar-sands oil into the Northwoods neighborhood, the company became omnipresent in this small town of 2,200 people. The first thing you notice when driving into Mayflower is the stench. Travelers can smell the fumes from Interstate 40, which...
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