“Oil flowed through the neighborhood, contaminating homes and yards, before entering a nearby creek, wetlands and a cove of Lake Conway. Some residents were ordered to evacuate their homes after the spill and remained displaced for an extended period of time. The spill volume has been estimated at approximately 3,190 barrels, or 134,000 gallons” (USDOJ)
Mayflower Arkansas (suburban Little Rock) Exxon Mobil Pipeline oil spill, USEPA
US Secretary of State nominee, Rex Tillerson, wants sanctions dropped against Russia to export equipment to drill the Arctic but is “not well-equipped to deal with” clean-up? “Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, testified that “when these things [oil spills] happen, we are not well-equipped to deal with them.” Over the last 20 years nothing has changed. The industry and even the government has substantially invested in new technologies to drill in deeper water and deeper into the Earth…