Reporter Threatened With Arrest at Ark. Oil Spill Site

[G_j]

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130405/insideclimate-news-reporter-threatened-arrest-ark-oil-spill-site

InsideClimate News Reporter Threatened With Arrest at Ark. Oil Spill Site
ExxonMobil said Lisa Song would be charged with criminal trespass if she didn’t leave the command center where federal authorities are working.

By Susan White, InsideClimate News Apr 5, 2013


InsideClimate News reporter Lisa Song was threatened with arrest on Wednesday after she entered the command center for the cleanup operation in Mayflower, Ark., where a major oil pipeline spill occurred on Friday.

Song went to the command center in hopes of reaching representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation. She had been told they were working out of the command center, but had been unable to get their names or contact information despite multiple requests to the agencies.

Thousands of barrels of oil from Alberta's tar sands region—similar to the diluted bitumen that would flow through the controversial Keystone XL project—spilled into a residential neighborhood from a pipeline owned by ExxonMobil, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes. Those families are now being housed in hotels at Exxon's expense.

Song had tried to enter the command compound on Tuesday, but was turned away by a security guard. On Wednesday, however, a different guard was on duty and he waved her through the gate. Inside, a second person directed her to the warehouse that houses the command center.

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[Champion Jack]

1. ...by the corporation for the corporation...

[DeSwiss]

7. Exactly. n/t

[justhanginon]

2. The government

The government, hereinafter referred to as Exxon Mobil, said in a news release "we've told you all you need to know now get the hell out of here"! Sound familiar?

[malaise]

3. Where are the homeowners

Why is no one interviewing those poor people.
The coverup stinks more than the stench of the oil

[Shankapotomus]

9. +1

You think there would be at least several homeowners screaming bloody murder over this to the press.

[WillyT]

4. Yep... K & R !!!

Related Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022611157

[limpyhobbler]

5. It's pretty clear they don't think the public has a right to know what's going on there.

[DeSwiss]

6. Don't worry.....

...I've been assured that you can do just as good a job reporting from 1000 feet in the air.

- Further even.....

K&R

[UBEEDelusional]

8. Paying attention now at how OUR gov is now controlling the media blackout on an

oil spill just like they controlled the news on the wars.

The lesson our gov learned in Vietnam is control the media, prolong the war, make lots of money.

[G_j]

10. you got it right

they learned their lessons well.