Three months after the initial spill response, ExxonMobil Pipeline executive Karen Tyrone answered questions posed by the Log Cabin Democrat on the company’s role in the spill and its work to recover the community of Mayflower, including the status of Northwoods residences showing signs of oil beneath their foundations. Tyrone, the company’s vice president and operations manager, returned to the area Wednesday to review cleanup work and to meet with government officials on the subject of the spill, she said. While some areas of Mayflower are in what Tyrone calls “remediation,” the actual neighborhood where the pipeline spilled thousands of barrels of oil is still in the “recovery” phase. Tyrone explains remediation means there is no free standing oil left to clean. Recovery is ongoing in the Northwoods neighborhood, she said, because some residences haven’t been cleared for reentry. Tyrone said a couple of the 22 families evacuated have returned home, and many are in the first steps of the process of selling their homes to Exxon.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:40:00 +0000
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