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Related: About this forumOOPS, Inc.: Keystone XL, Arkansas Hire Notorious Private Contractor To "Clean-Up" Tar Sands Spills
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/13Same firm tied to Exxon Valdez spill, the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, Kalamazoo River spill, and Hurricane Sandy
OOPS, Inc.: Keystone XL, Arkansas Hire Notorious Private Contractor To "Clean-Up" Tar Sands Spills
By Steve Horn
Published on Saturday, April 13, 2013 by DeSmogBlog.com
Arkansas' Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the "independent analysis of the cleanup" of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O'Brien's, a firm with a history of oil spill cover-ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals.
At his April 10 press conference about the Mayflower spill response, AG McDaniel confirmed that Exxon had turned over 12,500 pages of documents to his office resulting from a subpoena related to Exxon's response to the March 29 Pegasus disaster. A 22-foot gash in the 65-year-old pipeline spewed over 500,000 gallons of tar sands dilbit through the streets of Mayflower, AR.
McDaniel also provided the media with a presser explaining that his office had "retained the assistance of Witt OBriens, a firm whose experts will immediately begin an independent analysis of the cleanup process."
O'Brien's has had its hands in the botched clean-up efforts of almost every high-profile oil spill disaster in recent U.S. history, including the Exxon Valdez spill, the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, the Enbridge tar sands pipeline spill into the Kalamazoo River, and Hurricane Sandy.
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OOPS, Inc.: Keystone XL, Arkansas Hire Notorious Private Contractor To "Clean-Up" Tar Sands Spills (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Apr 2013
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pipoman
(16,038 posts)1. Who/what is the alternative?
Are there many companies who offer cleanup services of oil spills?
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)3. Winston Wolf?
pipoman
(16,038 posts)4. You're sending the Wolf?
Shit N---, that's all you needed to say...
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)2. pumping heavy crude through a 65 yr old pipeline?
wow...i bet no one saw that coming.
hatrack
(59,440 posts)5. Heavy crude of a different specific gravity than pipe design - oh, and reversing the flow
No one could possibly have imagined a rupture . . .