Tar Sands Oil Arkansas, #4 (update)

That was the same day that ExxonMobil complied with a subpoena and delivered 12,587 pages of documents, including hundreds of plans and blueprints to Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.  Commenting on the 22 foot long, 2 inch wide, smooth split in the pipeline, McDaniel said, "The pipeline rupture is substantially larger than many of us initially thought." 

Also that day, April 10, the Huffington Post ran a detailed story about widespread health complaints among people living near the pipeline and as much as a mile or more away.  The next day, the Arkansas Times had a much [5]longer story[5] about the town with the headline: "Will Mayflower ever be the same after the Exxon spill?"  Not surprisingly, there was no one who thought so.    

Arkansas Paper Hears Ticking Timb Bomb 

The Arkansas Times story notes in passing "the still-ticking time bomb on the shores of Central Arkansas's primary water source, Lake Maumelle, where the Pegasus pipeline comes within 600 feet of the shoreline." 

And the Duncan firm is reaching out to people along for full 300-mile length of the pipeline in Arkansas, suggesting on Facebook: "If this pipeline runs through your property you may have a claim for damages." 

None of this information came from ExxonMobil.  Late on April 11, the ExxonMobil website's freshest news was a Unified Command press release from April 10, featuring the usual good news about the air, water, fish, and residents. 

April 10 looks like the day ExxonMobil lost [2]control of the story[2], at least for the moment. 

Despite sketchy mainstream media coverage outside Arkansas, enforced by a county sheriff's department obedient to ExxonMobil directives, the increased [3]flow of news[3] from the Duncan Firm, and Attorney General, and a local population losing patience with -- and more importantly trust in ExxonMobil's promises will be much harder for America's most profitable corporation to control. 

And Why Would Anyone Distrust ExxonMobil? 

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