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Cleaned area at Exxon pipeline spill in Arkansas
Exxon: No Plans Yet To Reopen Ruptured Pipeline, and No Answers Why
The company has yet to release results of a sophisticated test of the 65-year-old pipeline's interior, conducted in February.
Almost two months after a ruptured pipeline sent at least 210,000 gallons of oil flowing through a...
By David Hasemyer
May 20, 2013 | Read More
Oil spill cleanup along Talmadge Creek, June 2011.
The Case of the Disappearing Dilbit: How Much Oil Was Released in 2010 Pipeline Spill?
A crucial number is removed, without explanation, from the EPA website that is tracking the cleanup of the 2010 dilbit spill Michigan’s Kalamazoo River.
A key piece of data related to the biggest tar sands oil spill in U.S. history has disappeared from...
By Lisa Song
May 6, 2013 | Read More
Clean-up workers at the site of Exxon's pipeline spill
Arkansas Oil Spill Shatters American Dream of Families Still Displaced From New Homes
Uprooted and anxious, Arkansans find themselves thrust into the debate about the Canadian oil that filled their streets and the safety of such pipelines.
It has been more than a month now, and Amber Bartlett has had enough of hotels and apartments and...
By Maria Gallucci
May 2, 2013 | Read More
Oil from Exxon's ruptured Pegasus pipeline
Arkansas Oil Spill Damage Assessment: If Not the Feds, Then Who?
For now, two state agencies will little experience in dealing with major oil spills are in charge of surveying and counteracting the ecological damage.
Federal agencies have so far not decided whether to undertake an assessment of the ecological harm...
By Maria Gallucci
Apr 25, 2013 | Read More
PHSMA Exxon oil spill
Ark. Oil Spill Probe Falls to Understaffed Agency With Close Industry Ties
Underfunded agency faces the challenge of finding answers to key questions: When did Exxon's pipeline rupture and when did the company learn of the spill?
Just a day after roughly one million gallons of heavy Canadian crude oil spilled into Michigan's...
By Katherine Bagley
Apr 22, 2013 | Read More
Annotated map showing the Wabasca oil field, circled in red, as oil sands
Dilbit or Not? Wabasca Crude Is the Question
“Can the oil accurately be described as tar sands oil, or a type of diluted bitumen (dilbit)?” the EPA asked in an April 5 letter to Exxon.
When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured last month in Mayflower, Ark., it was carrying diluted...
By Maria Gallucci
Apr 18, 2013 | Read More
Alberta Premier Alison Redford
To Win Support for Keystone, Alberta Premier Pleads Poverty in D.C. Visit
But experts say Alberta’s problem is that it's all but giving away its oil to industry, in a cycle of subsidy and overproduction that a pipeline won't end.
WASHINGTON—The premier of Alberta, Canada, made another visit to Washington D.C. last week,...
By John H. Cushman Jr.
Apr 15, 2013 | Read More
The tear in ExxonMobil's ruptured pipeline, courtesy of Duncan Firm
Exxon's 22-Foot Rupture Illustrates Tremendous Operating Pressure of Oil Pipelines
Exxon oil spill in Arkansas demonstrates how quickly pipeline accidents can turn into catastrophe.
The rupture in the ExxonMobil pipeline that sent a river of oil through a suburban neighborhood in...
By Lisa Song
Apr 12, 2013 | Read More
MesoCoat, Inc. breaks ground on its clad pipe manufacturing facility in Euclid,
Upstart Pipeline Company Staking Its Future on Stopping Heavy Oil Corrosion
The oil industry knows heavy oil is more corrosive than sweet crude, and MesoCoat says it has pipe-coating technology to solve the problem.
An upstart company in Ohio is aiming to disrupt the oil pipeline business with new technology that...
By Maria Gallucci
Apr 8, 2013 | Read More
Trailer of the ExxonMobil Emergency Response team
InsideClimate News Reporter Threatened With Arrest at Ark. Oil Spill Site
ExxonMobil said Lisa Song would be charged with criminal trespass if she didn’t leave the command center where federal authorities are working.
InsideClimate News reporter Lisa Song was threatened with arrest on Wednesday after she entered the...
By Susan White
Apr 5, 2013 | Read More