Another spill in a beautiful neighborhood

This is unbelievable! With all these corporate henchmen winding up in congress and pushing forward deregulation and agendas to increase profits at the expense of our natural resources and homes, you'd expect to see a riot. Where are the pissed off folks at??????

Another oil spill, this time in Montana in the middle of the country. You know this oil is going to spread down the Yellowstone River into countless other regions creating many problems and destroying wildlife for years to come.

We here at CP have said it before and will say it again, oil is not a resource we should invest in any longer. We need new forms of fuel, many of which are already in the works and are sustainable and environmentally friendly. What i suggest doing is hitting Exxon where it hurts the most ... their pockets. Don't buy their gas. Go to one of the lesser of many evils like 76. I've stopped going to Shell, BP and Chevron due to all the debacles and carelesness that they've been creating.

Read the article below and just try to imagine waking up to some shit like that. And pardon the French, but sometimes you just have to let the steam out.





The spread of an estimated 1,000 barrels or 42,000 gallons of crude oil along the flooded banks of the Yellowstone River in Montana is becoming increasingly difficult to capture since an ExxonMobile pipeline ruptured late Friday night.

The break in the pipe near Laurel, Mont., forced an immediate evacuation of about 140 people from the town to protect them from possible explosions and dangerous fumes.
Brent Peters, the fire chief for Laurel, told the Associated Press that once the leak was detected he asked the three oil companies with pipelines in the area to shut down their flows. The residents were allowed to return to their homes around 4 a.m. on Saturday. ExxonMobile reports that pipeline pumps were shut down seven minutes after the loss of pressure in the system.

While the fumes have dissipated to safer levels, the smell of the oil still permeates the air downstream and 12 miles to the east through the city of Billings, where the oil pipeline terminates. ExxonMobile, Cenex Harvest Refinery and Conoco Phillips all have refineries in Billings. The 12-inch diameter ExxonMobile pipe that ruptured was buried six feet below the riverbed and carrying crude oil from Belfry, Mont.

ExxonMobile clean-up crews from the Billings refinery laid out absorbent material and booms along the banks and across the Yellowstone River on Saturday, but the fast flows and flooding has hampered efforts to contain the spread. ExxonMobile sent a team of 50 more oil spill responders to the area on Sunday.

The Environmental Protection Agency, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and the International Bird Rescue as well as local and state authorities are also on the scene.

The Associate Press reported that oil from the slick had reached Hysham, Mont., by late Saturday night, a distance of nearly 100 miles east of Laurel.
"Nobody's been able to lay their eyes on the pipe," Peters told the AP. "Right now, the Yellowstone River is at flood stage. The bank isn't stable enough for anybody to get close.

Oil spills into Montana's Yellowstone River