Feds say Yellowstone cleanup will take more people (Exxon Mobil oil spill)

Source: AP

By MATTHEW BROWN

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to bring in more people to mop up oil from a broken pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River as receding floodwaters reveal new contamination, federal officials said Friday.

Also Friday, Montana environmental regulators said the pipeline may have leaked up to 1,200 barrels of oil into the scenic river. That equals 50,400 gallons and is 20 percent higher than prior estimates from Exxon Mobil.

Water levels on the Yellowstone have dropped six feet since the July 1 accident. Hundreds of logjams and debris piles, many coated in a layer of drying crude, now litter its banks and islands.

After burning the piles was rejected by state officials, representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that oiled debris will have to be pulled apart, run through wood-chippers and hauled away.


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ExxonMobil cleanup workers remove bags of oil-covered vegetation from a side channel along the Yellowstone River near Billings, Mont. on Friday, July 22, 2011. After a pipeline spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of oil into the river on July 1, receding floodwaters are revealing more contamination miles downstream from the spill site. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

"we would have dumped tons of Corexit upstream and said, problem solved. Didn't you learn ANYTHING watching us deal with the spill in the Gulf?"

with the pipeline in Alaska

But it seems that everytime this shit happens, they underestimate, or don't send enough people to clean it up.

To send those three guys in rain ponchos with a couple of plastic bags just isn't gonna work.:wtf:

Wasn't the Civilian Conservation Corps one of FDR's first job programs?