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An Exxon Mobil crude oil pipeline ruptured near the town of Mayflower in the US state of Arkansas, spilling thousands of barrels of oil, the company said.
Exxon shut the 50-centimetre Pegasus pipeline, which carries crude oil from Pakota, Illinois, to the Gulf Coast, after the leak was discovered on Friday afternoon.
Exxon, which was hit with a $1.7m fine by regulators this week over a 2011 spill in the Yellowstone River, said a few thousand barrels of oil had been observed.
Local media reported the spill occurred in a subdivision, and Mayflower police said the oil had not reached the nearby Lake Conway.
Federal, state and local officials were on site and the company said it was staging a response for a spill of more than 10,000 barrels "to be conservative."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/03/201333142826356825.html
At 6,700-acres, Lake Conway is the largest man-made game and fish commission lake in the United States. Construction of the lake began in 1948, with its waters coming from the runoff of Stone Dam Creek, Gold Creek, Palarm Creek, Little Cypress Creek and Panther Creek. Its average depth is six feet, with a maximum depth of 18 feet. The lake is approximately eight miles long with 52 miles of shoreline.
Fishing: Known as an excellent fishing lake, Conway is stocked with bass, catfish, bream and crappie. Several free public launch areas are maintained by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission; boat rentals are available at several commercial docks on the lake. Adams', Brannon's, Bream's Nest, Gold Creek, Highway, Lawrence, Martin's Northshore, Palarm Creek, Paradise, Pierce Creek and Sevier's are the landings with boat ramps. Old creek channels that can be found on all sides of the lake are some of the best places to bass fish. Lake Conway is home to the Crappie Masters State Tournament in the spring.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)after fishing at the near by lake in my youth. Black Bass will now have a second meaning.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)KARK 4 News:
... the line can transport 96,000 barrels of oil a day. In most cases, the oil comes from Western Canada. The line's capacity was dramatically increased from 30,000 barrels a day in 2009.
The pipeline reportedly carries tar sands oil, according to the same Bloomberg report sourced above. The Sierra Club, an environmental action group, calls tar sands the "dirtiest oil on earth."
ExxonMobil says the pipeline has leak detection technology. According to the company, the technology helped the pipeline operate in a "safe and environmentally responsible manner."
http://arkansasmatters.com/images/Multi_Media/arkansasmatters/nxd_media/img/jpg/2013_03/911d7a63-c58b-6ef4-355d-e993569fd9fe/
http://arkansasmatters.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=649812
Click here to read the official statement on the rupture from ExxonMobil.
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/news_ak.aspx
...We regret that this incident has occurred and apologize for any disruption and inconvenience that it has caused, said Karen Tyrone, southern operations manager of ExxonMobil Pipeline Company. Our focus is on protecting health, safety and the environment. We will be here until the cleanup is complete.
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Exxon did not address the criticism that they are an abomination to the natural world.
AAO
(3,300 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Besides, we all know Exxon is a great corporate person.
malaise
(269,172 posts)Rec
KG
(28,752 posts)can't wait for the prez to sign off on that!
Think of all the jobs the clean-up will create! (not just Canadian jobs either!)
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Strongly on the jobs that will be created by the Keystone XL pipeline.
I don't expect that this will hurt him though - what I do expect is a lot of local advertising by Exxon in the coming months.
polly7
(20,582 posts)I'm so sorry.
Conium
(119 posts)10 thousand barrels of oil can contaminate 10 billion barrels of water.
[link:http://www.onedrop.org/en/UnderstandTheWaterCrisis/water-crisis.aspx|
xchrom
(108,903 posts)spanone
(135,880 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)I mean our Wonderful Corporate Masters only want to build it over the largest aquifer (the Ogallala) on the planet, that provides 100% of the water to millions. What possibly go wrong?
Whisp
(24,096 posts)really really wanted/wants that pipeline.
for her pockets and her friend's pockets.
jambo101
(797 posts)When the story is reporting Exxon ownership of the pipeline and the incident occurring in Arkansas in a pipeline that runs from Pakota, Illinois, to the Gulf Coast,
northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)not US oil..... OK its from the country of Exxon who got it from Canada.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)I guess we didn't need fish or water anyway?
Chipper Chat
(9,691 posts)to fly down to Arkansas and do PR for the oil companies. Because everyone listens to Sarah Palin dontcha know.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)It will give new meaning to "Crappie fishing."
It's ironic these oil sludge pipelines go through the heart of Republican country. The very party whose campaign slogan was "Drill Here! Drill NOW!" in 2008. How many backyard spills will it take before they change their slogan?