In March of last year, ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of diluted bitumen (“dilbit”) pouring down the town’s streets. Now, just over a year after the massive spill, devastation has come to Mayflower and neighboring towns again, this time in the form of a lethal tornado. On the evening of April 27, the twister destroyed huge pockets of the town of just over two thousand three hundred citizens in a wholesale manner, with fourteen confirmed dead and likely many more still not counted.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:28:09 +0000
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