Local station KATV has also reported about the Opflex results, and has accounts from Mayflower residents of oil and oil-coated wildlife sightings in areas where ExxonMobil claims that the oil never reached. As we learned in the Enbridge Kalamazoo River spill, the “dilbit disaster,” diluted bitumen is much harder to clean up than conventional crude, in large part because it sinks in bodies of water and doesn’t float for easy retrieval. Knowing that the oil spilled from Pegasus was a heavy tar sands crude (referred to by ExxonMobil as Wabasca Heavy crude but considered tar sands by authorities in Canada), it stands to reason that surface tests wouldn’t be enough to determine if a body of water was truly free of tar sands oil.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:02:31 +0000
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