The latest from the Button Valley Bugle about the Exxon spill in the Yellowstone River:
In what seems to have become SOP for the oil giant, they told federal regulators today that their pipeline was buried 12 feet below the streambed of the Yellowstone. On Tuesday ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. President Gary Pruessing said, before talking to the Exxon PR department, “Soundings to determine the pipeline’s depth were taken in December, and at the time, the line appeared to be 5 to 8 feet below the riverbed,â€. On Tuesday, a company executive told the Governor that they had shut the line down within 30 minutes of the spill. The new documents show that the pipe leaked for nearly an hour before being shut down. Initially, company spokesmen said that they saw “very little soiling†of the river banks beyond the 10-mile mark. Currently the company has workers sopping up oil along a 25-mile stretch of the river and there were reports of a 25-mile long slick near Hysham, nearly 100 miles downstream.
The rest of his article here.
Its amazing how people are so willing to lie, just to cover their butts. This hole thing makes me sick in both my stomach and mind. That is terrible news. Thanks for the newest update. Lets hope for the best and expect the worst as usual. Tight Lines.
Trout MaGee(Quote)
With Exxon (as it was with BP in the Gulf), the issue is rarely one of outright fabrication as much as it is the companies always “erring in their direction.”
When you see it happen enough, you know it’s probably a pattern of behavior and not random chance…
Tom Chandler(Quote)