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ExxonMobil keeping quiet as Mayflower residents report increasing health problems
Drum skimmers and sorbent boom are used in a tributary to contain the ExxonMobil pipeline rupture in Mayflower, Arkansas. (Reuters / Handout)
As the cleanup of the March 29 ExxonMobil spill in Arkansas continues, eyewitness reports of environmental and public health consequences are beginning to emerge – despite notable near-silence from the oil giant and local authorities on the matter.
Only a week ago, an elementary school in the area sent home eight students after they began displaying symptoms of having inhaled petrochemical fumes.
Several eyewitness accounts shared with environmental groups report events so far unexplained by ExxonMobil, including workers netting dead fish from nearby Lake Conway, and reports that cleanup workers during the day seem to wear minimal protection to toxins, but are seen wearing full protective suits at night.
According to April Lane of the Faulkner County Concerned Citizens Advisory Group, levels of toxic chemicals released by the heavy crude spill are not being properly monitored, recorded or reported.
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