Exxon Mobil firms to pay nearly $5M for Arkansas oil spill

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Two subsidiaries of Exxon Mobil must pay almost $5 million in penalties for state and federal violations involving the 2013 Mayflower oil spill in central Arkansas, according to a consent decree filed in federal court Wednesday.

The decree brokered between the U.S. Department of Justice, the Arkansas attorney general’s office and the subsidiaries — Exxon Mobil Pipeline Company and Mobil Pipe Line Company — will not become final until after 30 days of public comment.

Assistant Attorney General John Cruden said the company did not admit liability as part of the agreement.

Exxon Mobil spokesman Christian Flatham said the settlement lowered the number of barrels of oil estimated to have leaked into a cove of Conway Lake in Mayflower on Good Friday in March 2013 from 3,190 to 5,000 barrels.

Read more: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/04/22/exxon-mobil-firms-to-pay-nearly-5m-for-arkansas-oil-spill/

[Demonaut]

1. I'm shitty at math but............

"Exxon Mobil spokesman Christian Flatham said the settlement lowered the number of barrels of oil estimated to have leaked into a cove of Conway Lake in Mayflower on Good Friday in March 2013 from 3,190 to 5,000 barrels."

[TexasTowelie]

2. At least you can read though.

It's disheartening that journalists can through college with writing skills that are so poor.

[chervilant]

3. I wondered about that as well.

I also wonder how much Exxon will have to pay the citizens whose property was polluted by that spill.