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Exxon Oil Spill Leaves Arkansas Neighborhood In Shock
2013-04-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Nearly a week after an oil pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Ark., residents of this community of 2,200 are still overwhelmed by the disaster that has upended their lives. "All of us are in shock," said David Fox, the pastor of First Baptist Church. "Manmade disasters are so rare in our state ... you don't think this kind of thing can happen to you." The oil spill, which occurred on Good Friday, cast a pall over the church service Fox held that day, he said. On Easter Sunday, an Exxon contractor...
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Arkansas Oil Spill Sheds Light On Aging Pipeline System
2013-04-04 13:07:44| Energy - Topix.net
A worker cleans up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways.
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Arkansas Oil Spill Sheds Light On Aging Pipeline System
2013-04-04 13:02:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A worker cleans up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways.
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Arkansas Oil Spill Sheds Light On Aging Pipeline System
2013-04-04 09:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Amber Bartlett was waiting last Friday for her kids to come home from school. One of them called from the entrance to the upscale subdivision near Little Rock, Ark., to tell her the community was being evacuated because of an oil spill. Bartlett was amazed by what she saw out her front door. "I mean just rolling oil. I mean it was like a river," she says. "It had little waves in it." ExxonMobil, the company that runs the pipeline, says it has collected hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil...
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Exxon Mobil Promises to Cover Oil Spill Cleanup Costs in Arkansas
2013-04-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Exxon Mobil will pay all of the costs related to last week's oil spill in an Arkansas neighborhood, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Between 3,500 and 5,000 barrels of heavy crude leaked from a ruptured pipeline -- not 12,000 barrels, as previously reported, according to Exxon Mobil spokesman Alan Jeffers. The company has no timeline yet for when the cleanup around the two dozen homes in a Mayflower, Arkansas, subdivision would be completed, Jeffers said. Excavation of the contaminated...
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