While questions over the severity of ExxonMobil’s March 29 oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas still remain, the same pipeline has now ruptured, this time to the north, in Missouri.
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The stuff that the cleanup crew used is called Corexit and is apparently a lot more dangerous than the US government and BP have claimed.
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We also learned that Arkansas law enforcement officers have been paid by Exxon to work as “private security” during their off-duty hours, while remaining in their uniform, creating a serious conflict of interest that blurs the lines between which parties they serve, the people of Arkansas or the most profitable corporation in the world.
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The ExxonMobil pipeline rupture that has leaked thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas is “substantially bigger” than thought. Meanwhile the press is still forbidden to access the site and there is a no fly zone over the oil spill.
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Shell Pipeline, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, shut down their West Columbia, Texas, pipeline last Friday after electronic calculations conducted by the US National Response Center showed that upwards of 700 barrels had been lost, amounting to almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil.
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As responders continue clearing tens of thousands of gallons of oil from a small Arkansas town after an Exxon pipeline burst, delivering a severe blow to the local ecosystem, a major NGO has named the oil giant the winner of a national safety award.
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The FAA announced a temporary no-fly zone would be enacted indefinitely over the Arkansas oil spill. With word that an Exxon employee was controlling the airspace, though, speculation pointed to the idea the oil company was trying to keep the media away
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From the Bahamas and Cuba down to Aruba and Suriname, international oil companies are lining up to locate potentially rich offshore deposits in the Caribbean. The death of Chavez might end the cheap flow of subsidized Venezuelan oil.
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“…There’s no sugar-coating this, I imagine there would be spills, and no spill is OK. But will there be a spill large enough to impact people’s subsistence? My view is no, I don’t believe that would happen…”
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The U.S. government banned BP Plc from new federal contracts on Wednesday over its “lack of business integrity” in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, a move that could imperil the British energy giant’s U.S. footing.
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