Arkansas-residents-evecuate as- exon-mobile tar sands pipeline ruptures.
Last edited Sat Mar 30, 2013, 06:34 PM - Edit history (3)
Source: David Ferguson....Raw Story
This thing looks like a real mess. Also oil is showing up in local neighborhoods!!!
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/30/Arkansas-residents-evacuate-as-exxon-mobil-tar-sands-pipeline-ruptures/
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,614 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Cannikin
(8,359 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)Please expand ....
merrily
(45,251 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)mbperrin
(7,672 posts)and energy independence and 'Murika and stuff!
Pipelines rupture daily. The precaution against it? None. The system in place called "pipeline inspection" is a small plane flying around looking for pools of petro-products.
Wind. Solar. End of story.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)These bastards have taken over the state. They have a new bill they're trying to push through to strip the courts of their duties and take them for themselves. SJR5 is the bill title
elleng
(130,895 posts)to reality???
wordpix
(18,652 posts)call me a skeptic but the anti-environmentalist asshats are the richies who run the country
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)I thought the tar sands pipeline(s) were still in debate. How is it they have made it all the way to Arkansas already with not only the pipeline, but also the oil? There must be something I am missing.
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louis-t
(23,292 posts)It's only the connector that is being debated. I could be wrong. I don't know how they have tar sands in Arkansas.
Cannikin
(8,359 posts)on local news. It's the green Pegasus pipeline.
It brings tar sands oil from Canada to the gulf coast.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)Gin
(7,212 posts)Tar sands oil....just oil......if its tar sands that project is almost finished if its in Arkansas why the fights in congress?
From the story...
A Hazmat team from the Office of Emergency Management is on site. They said that a lot of residual oil flowed down Starlight Road - one of two main streets in the subdivision.
One home on Starlight was completely surrounded by crude oil, according to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. Around 20 homes have been affected by this spill but, as of Friday evening, the oil posed no risk to residents.
Glad no risks.....sure.......just a ruined house.....happy easter folks.
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)figure out a way to not cover this one.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Act of god exception easy to play. Sigh
maindawg
(1,151 posts)nothing to see here..........
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Actual damage is realized in about a week or so.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)move along
Seeking Serenity
(2,840 posts)OP got corrected
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...street now.
PB
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)what do we have here?
knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)That cleanup is going to take years. Ours is, and most of ours went into the Kalamazoo River.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)Our resources are being pillaged and Americans will not see one red cent of the profits. I am convinced that this is why they work so hard to divide us--to create distractions while our lands are ruined.
Who knew Tar Sands was already in Arkansas?
timdog44
(1,388 posts)We need to end our reliance on oil. It feels so inadequate to say that, but we need to.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)The taxpayers will pay to clean it up!
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Then out of nowhere heres the f'ing thing already f'ing up the environment. Obama should just say "no f'ing way now. "You guys blew it."
locks
(2,012 posts)It's heavy crude from Canada called dilbit, on its way to TX refineries and harder to clean up from water than any other. My Senator Bennett voted last week to approve the Keystone pipeline; he got slammed and sent me a long letter that nothing had been completely decided. I just wrote him that he might want to visit Mayflower ARK and the many other recent spills before he votes again.
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)I thought they had to do that in order to move the dirt/sand/oil mixture.
Didn't Arkansas just ram through some kind of eminent domain bullshit for big oil?
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Please edit the OP so title matches the link and it fits LBN standards. Thank you. Here...
"Arkansas residents evacuate as Exxon-Mobil tar sands pipeline ruptures"
Livluvgrow
(377 posts)and go figure about two thirds of the area is republican. I am sad for the environment, but don't have one iota of sadness for those jerks. Let them swim in their oil. Maybe their Romney Ryan signs could be used to clean up their oily mess. I apologize to the good responsible folk for these feelings, but it is time that those ignorant fools that support this stuff see up close and personal what problems their idiotic policies can cause.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)but they did stop it with sand dykes. The paper didn't say where the oil comes from just that the pipe burst and they did get it shut down. How would you like to have a freaking oil pipeline running through your 'hood? If I were those people I'd be pissed and demand that they buy my house at fair market value and move. Huge surprise here to hear about this.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)by a Dentist using unclean medical equipment... I feel bad for them, but its time they wake up as well and realize what deregulation really means!!!
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)When you find it necessary to couple an "it's time they wake up" remark with "I feel bad for them", you don't really feel bad for them.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Well hear this.. People who live in the Red South see govt. as nothing but evil.
They hate any kind of regulation and this is exactly what this kind of thinking gets them.
Ill be explicit....Those who might have been infected with something I will feel bad for. But all the others might think twice the next time they see a guy roaming through a restaurant, or Mds office or a grocery store with a govt badge on, because that he might be there on their behalf.
And finally to you I say. It seems you have a real soft place in your heart for the Yellow Rose Of Texas...
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)They require more thought and effort to use, but yield better results.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 1, 2013, 02:20 AM - Edit history (1)
Very clever....But to another point...
Perhaps you should begin a post entitled.. Just because were dead red, how dare you generalize..
See how well you do....
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)And the last time I checked, disregarding the misfortune of others because they don't live in the right place was a Republican tendency, not a Democratic one.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)for those in red states who are o.k. seeing their own environment torn apart and then feel bad for them when it comes back and gets them in their collective asses. These same people who wouldnt offer a dime of help for the victims of Sandy and then scream for not getting enough help for their own tragedies ?
These same people who have installed state govt, officials who disrespect our president with racist taunts,
who hate the poor, who despise minorities, want teachers to carry guns in school; Deprive people of the
same sex of getting married.. Closing down woman heath clinics......Yea I feel sorry for those who are poor
and cant leave the state, but the 75% of the people who are proud to be from that state can rot in hell!!!
Yea its come down to that... Finally, Those deep red states who are defiant concerning accepting Medicare
dollars from entering their states which can help those in desperate need of medical help.. These people deserve little sympathy if they too become devastated due to medical bills.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Yes, a lot of people suffer when state governments refuse Federal dollars on ideological grounds, but many (perhaps most) of those who suffer aren't the ones who elected the yahoos making the decisions. That's why ALEC has been pushing so hard on legislation to further disenfranchise poor and minority voters.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)gets the best of me sometimes, in the long run Im always on the side of those who need help..
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)In that case, we deserve the worst that can possibly happen, because we live in a state where the majority are assholes who vote for Republicans. Got it!
tincanguy
(7 posts)The following was shared on my Facebook page.
Folks, this is a backyard picture of the Mayflower, AR oil spill on that Exxon pipeline. The local authorities have denied the press access to these areas so few have actually seen the extent of the spill. This picture was taken by a friend's daughter who lives next door to this house. Share this widely
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200923087946257&set=o.246310432083819&type=1&ref=nf
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)the exxon spokesperson, Gary Pruessing (?) said they will maybe work with folks to make things kinda right. What a great company, huh?
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Look at the A/C unit... you can't see the base of it.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)The officials who want this pipeline so badly will sit there and wonder what to do, then say it's not so bad, then lobby for more pipelines, then give politicians legal bribes to stay in/run for/get into office...
Neverending cycle of oil-runs-the-nation
wordpix
(18,652 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)But something like this might help stop the Keystone Pipeline and finally convince people it's not safe.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)all of the Limbeciles will be in unison by this evening.