Uploaded by SustainableGuidance on 27 Apr 2011
Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air - the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Effecting a land mass equivalent in size to Florida or England, Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.
Tar sands take 3 barrels of water to process every barrel of oil extracted. Ninety percent of this water becomes so toxic that it must be stored in tailing ponds. Unfortunately these ponds regularly leach pollution into the third largest watershed in the world.
Water depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination has become one of the most important issues facing humanity this century. Check out my other video on water issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmpg35Bym0 and see my other videos to learn about the dark side of fossil fuels.
To learn more about tar sands, be sure to check out the featured film sources listed below. Find out more about what you can do and how to support the film makers.
Tar sands development can be minimized by blocking development of pipelines, such as Keystone XL, that carry the sludge of this incredibly polluting energy project. Tell Canada to clean up this mess and join with Bill McKibben and Josh Fox and let your voice be heard.
_________________ 'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
I met a guy at Conway Hall a few years back, who was heavily associated with 'Rabble' at a Malalai Joya talk (very powerful it was, too: check out 'Malalai Joya + Conway Hall + video').
Re 'Dirty Oil', it appears from some recent news that the oil industry is to start 'Frac....king' (hope that passes the 'obsenity' filters!) in the UK; it seems as though 'they' are not satisfied with poisoning us with flouride, nitrates and phosphates (and much more) but they want to contaminate the water tables with hydrocarbons like Benzene etc.:
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/greenpeace-response- government-gas-fracking-go-ahead-20120417 _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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My original spelling in previous post was indeed changed to 'blasted', so I edited it to have half a dozen dots in the middle. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:48 pm Post subject: Tar sands oil spill in Arkansas
Amazing stuff! Exxon claim 'few thousand barrels' leak, yet get FAA to impose 'No Fly Zone' to anything other than Exxon aircraft!
All in order to keep the true scale of the devastation secret, especially with the Canadian Tar Sands pipeline project being discussed in Congress.
The oil giant can deny permission to journalists, observers in fly zone over tar sands disaster
By Natasha Lennard
Topics: pegasus, tar sands, Arkansas, Arkansas Oil Spill, exxon mobil, Big Oil, Keystone XL pipeline, Business News, News
Workers clean up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on Monday, April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)
DeSmog Blog’s Steve Horn Thursday drew attention to an interesting detail in the Arkansas ExxonMobil oil spill story. He notes, “The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has had a ‘no fly zone’ in place in Mayflower, Arkansas since April 1 at 2:12 PM and will be in place ‘until further notice,’ according to the FAA website and it’s being overseen by ExxonMobil itself.”
This means that any journalists or observers wishing to survey the tar sands disaster and cleanup efforts must ask the Pegasus pipeline owner for permission. Via Horn:
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette revealed that the FAA site noted earlier today that “only relief aircraft operations under direction of Tom Suhrhoff” were allowed within the designated no fly zone.
Suhrhoff is not an FAA employee: he works for ExxonMobil as an “Aviation Advisor“ and formerly worked as a U.S. Army pilot for 24 years, according to his LinkedIn page.
Natasha Lennard is an assistant news editor at Salon, covering non-electoral politics, general news and rabble-rousing. Follow her on Twitter @natashalennard, email nlennard@salon.com. More Natasha Lennard.
This past weekend, an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying nearly 100,000 barrels of toxic tar sands crude spewed into Mayflower, Arkansas. Yards are flooded in black crude, a river of toxic oil flows down the street, and the nearby fishing lake is covered in black grease. Families have been evacuated, but nobody knows what the dangers to the community are, or even how much oil has been spilled. Why? Because Exxon’s not talking.
Let’s hold ExxonMobil accountable for this spill by demanding it release all the information on this spill -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- while the images of play sets and driveways overrun with crude oil are still in the public eye.
Tell ExxonMobil to release information about the tens of thousands barrels of crude spilled in Arkansas.
ExxonMobil is controlling the no-fly zone over the spill site that the federal government put in place to keep news helicopters from capturing images of the disaster. ExxonMobil is being so secretive because it wants people to believe that pipelines like this are perfectly safe and pose no threat to people or the planet. But this catastrophe in Arkansas foreshadows a future reality for anyone who lives along the thousands of miles of pipeline being considered for approval by the U.S. government.
Right now, ExxonMobil and other oil companies are lobbying furiously for the Keystone XL, a massive pipeline stretching across the North America that will transport enough toxic tar to be "game over" for the planet. If approved, the Keystone XL will be carrying even more of the same hard-to-clean-up toxic crude as the oil spilled in Arkansas.
The last thing ExxonMobil and its ilk want is to tell us the truth about its dirty business while legislators are making such a high-stakes decision on the Keystone XL. It knows that if we can use this spill in Arkansas to show the world the reality of these pipelines, we may be able to stop the Keystone XL in its tracks. And it's especially vulnerable to public pressure right now, since images of backyards covered in its tar sands crude are leaking out and going viral on Facebook.
Tell ExxonMobil to release all the information it has on the massive pipeline spill.
Together, we can expose the reality for people in the path of the crude spill, help show the public that the pipelines that ExxonMobil and other major companies haven't started construction on yet are unsafe too, and hopefully stop future pipelines in their tracks entirely.
************** _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM
News conference this morning. Fox 16's first summary says that some of the people forced out of their homes by the deluge of heavy Canadian tar sands from the ruptured Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline could return home today.
But. Do they want to do so? Interest is not high at the moment, according to Channel 4 newswoman Jessica Dean's Twitter report from the news conference.
Other news points:
* Exxon is still removing oil from the pipeline, which ran for 18 miles between cutoff points on the stretch that exploded from a 22-foot rupture in a Mayflower subdivision.
* Exxon is is still working on home values. Purchase of the homes is a possibility.
* The EPA reports it's satisfied with Exxon's response in the cleanup, but says wetlands remain a concern.
* Jessica Dean reports that a question related to the pipeline's crossing of the Lake Maumelle watershed and impact on Central Arkansas Water was turned away. The person in charge of the news conference — Patrick McGinn, an Exxon spokesperson — said questions would be limited to recovery efforts.
UPDATE: The Duncan Law Firm, which is representing plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit over damage from the pipeline rupture, has posted photos from the break scene on its Facebook page, including closeups of the 22-foot split.
Arkansas ExxonMobil oil spill even worse than thought:
http://rt.com/usa/arkansas-exxon-oil-spill-701/ _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
...due to legal guidelines that fail to define diluted bitumen -- the substance that inundated Mayflower -- as oil, ...(Exxon)... may not be required to contribute to the federal government’s oil spillage cleanup fund
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