Mayflower AR Oil Spill unwittingly narrated by NE Rep. Lee Terry
Channel: aksarbent
Date: 2013-04-05

Much more here:
http://aksarbent.blogspot.com/2013/04/nebraska-gop-rep-lee-terry-made.html

On Saturday, March 30th, as Rep. Lee Terry betrayed the interests of farmers and ranchers in Nebraska by touting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, tar sands oil was bubbling up through from a leaking underground pipe in Mayflower, Arkansas, sickening residents and even a photographer who flew over ExxonMobil's new flora/fauna killing fields.

Although ExxonMobil's law enforcement proxies from the Faulkner County Sheriff's office threatened media with arrest, and the oil company got the FAA to allow a ExxonMobil employee to refuse media requests for overflights, neither ExxonMobil nor Sheriff Andy Shock could stop the release of EPA photographs of the damage, which AKSARBENT has used to accompany the preposterous, unprincipled and false agitprop of Nebraska GOP Rep. Terry.

The Faulkner County Arkansas Sheriff''s department seems to be serving ExxonMobil first and the public last. Here's an account from tarsandsblockade.org:

http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/exxonspill-dispatches-2/ 

While we were taking pictures of the dead lake, two Mayflower police officers approached us. Once we explained that we had permission to be there, they left. Shortly afterward, two Faulkner County sheriffs approached us and told us to leave immediately or we would be arrested. At this point, the homeowners were outside and also explained that we were allowed to be there. The officer, Deputy Sweeney, said that we were "too close to the scene" and that we had to leave.

Out of earshot of the residents, Sweeney told us to leave. We reiterated that the landowner gave us permission. Sweeney said that we didn't have his permission. We said that it was the landowner's property. He responded "It's my property now."