Yesterday, activist indy news team JNL RadikalMedia did what the mainstream media won’t or can’t do, providing exclusive video from the scene of Exxon’s oil pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. The video shows what can only be described as a lake of oil.
Allegedly Exxon has been pumping the spill into this area. Exxon’s absorbent pads aka paper towels can also be seen scattered across the ground.
Here is the video that they shot.
From all reports Exxon has essentially established a police state, keeping journalists out and even maintaining a no fly zone over the area.
I am angry that Exxon still has this much power in this country, and I think it is well past time for them to be treated like exactly what they are, environmental criminals!
You can see more gut wrenching pictures here.
As much as everyone makes fun of Ark., it really is beautiful in the northern part. Hmmmm, Keystone pipeline.........needs to be looking at this PR debacle about to split wide open.
ReplyDeleteso sas where e er it happens.
It disgusts me beyond words that a corporation has the power to declare the area off limits.
ReplyDeleteThis is so damn depressing watching this giant corp destroying our country spill after spill. You only see the BP commercial about the Gulf being more pristine than ever, not interviews with all the residents or fisherman. I can't imagine eating any seafood down there...no matter what they say.
ReplyDeleteThe last job I had in CA was with Kinder Morgan, the largest owner of pipelines in No America (US, Mexico and Canada). I was a project accountant which meant to translate all the repairs, additions, maintenance and retirements into a detailed format for tax purposes....asset vs expense. This corp office contained many floors, one being totally secure with armed guards, etc which was the "control" room. All the computers used to shift, turn on, turn off all the pipelines used for gas & oil. They lease these pipelines to all the companies, so when there is a spill like this...I wonder why their name never comes up. I had no idea this is how it worked until I got the job (paid very well) and how complicated it all is. They use all local subcontractor labor to oversee maintenance & repairs and most of the employees I worked with were thru an employment agency...there are very few actual Kinder Morgan staff. I lost my job when a major lawsuit in the Midwest (gas pipeline exploded and 3 deaths) finally trickled down to us, meaning my agency and then our contract was canceled. That is how they work....pushing liability away from the corp.
The really stupid part of the XL pipeline is that the US is getting totally screwed. Minimum temporary jobs, all that oil is being sold abroad while all the environmental damage...esp to our aqua firs which can never be cleaned, is ours. Our politicians are heavily invested in the oil companies...its all about the money.
There is also video of this slime coming out of people's faucets in t heir homes...which means their pipes will be ruined and home values destroyed as well. And the best part? Exxon has no culpability, since Congress doesn't recognize tar sands as an oil product. Yup.
ReplyDeleteThe only good thing a bout this is that pictures and reports are geting out, and this should kill the rest of the Keystone project.
link please
DeleteI have no google-fu, but isn't it possible to get pictures via Google Earth?
ReplyDeletewhat can we average citizens do about this? it is horrible!
ReplyDeleteI hope President Obama sees this. He has been pretty squishy on this issue. I believe the climate scientists who say that Keystone XL will be the beginning of the end.
ReplyDeletehere's another video they don't want you to see:
ReplyDeletehttp://americablog.com/2013/04/exxon-oil-pipeline-leak-arkansas-keystone.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog+News%29
Disgusting! It supposedly only takes only one or two drops of oil to make a gallon of water toxic. And that's without considering the undisclosed chemicals that are added to the tar sands to make it thin enough to flow through the pipeline.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of questions about this.
ReplyDeleteWho owns the land they pumped all that oil into?
Is pumping spilled oil onto the ground an acceptable procedure?
Where is the environmental documentation that must have been done prior to the project?
I hope Arkansas officials will pursue damages from this irrespondible act. Now that they have dumped oil onto the ground, won't it have to be removed? Or will they just fence off the area and walk away?
"DRILL BABY DRILL" right, Sarah Palin? Where is your Facebook posting on this oil spill?
ReplyDeleteNo wonder the Oil Lobby wants to dismantle the EPA. Screw the Keystone XL Pipeline. Any plan that calls itself "safe" and in the same breath says they permanently seal people's wells is a plan to fail. What happens when the water table lowers and new wells water wells need to be drilled deeper?
ReplyDeleteThis story needs to go viral. Part of my employment package includes a luxury car and an Exxon Credit Card. I drive a hybrid and pay my own gas, anything but BP and Exxon . When I need to "impress" clients, I rent a luxury car. Every little bit helps.
pipelines regulated by FERC not EPA
Deletehttp://www.ferc.gov/help/pub-ref-rm/history-oil-pipeline-regulation.pdf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/underground-industry-gas-_n_1026422.html
My family drove the Alcan in 1952. We picked up our new car in Michigan and drove it home to Anchorage. One place we stopped told us to be sure not to be in Grand Prairie if it rained. The reason being the ground was saturated with oil. This is the stuff they're now mining, same place. You sank into the muck when it got wet. We in fact managed to get to Grand Prairie in the rain and did in fact sink into the ground. It was like driving through glue. It was nasty. We had that car for many years. When we sold it Grand Prairie was still plastered all over the underside of the car. Nothing got it off. It was part of the car.
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