Two Tar Sands Spills Last Week: Minnesota, Arkansas

Two Tar Sands Spills Last Week: Minnesota, Arkansas

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There have been two tar sands oil spills in the last week since  the Senate voted in favor of building the Keystone tar sands pipeline.

Just after being charged $1.7 million for spilling 63,000 gallons of tar sands oil in the Yellowstone River in 2011, another ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured on Friday, spewing over 80,000 gallons of sludge bitumen in Arkansas. 22 homes have been evacuated. 
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Pegasus Pipeline spill is a "major spill." The pipeline runs 858 miles from Patoka, Illinois to Nederland, Texas.

Exxon says it has thus far removed 189,000 gallons of oil and water from the site and is prepared to clean up more than twice that amount. A press release says it's "staging a response for over 10,000 barrels [420,000 gallons] to be conservative."