A Primer on DilBit Spills in a Corporatist State

If you want an idea of what's in store for British Columbia if Harper/Redford/Enbridge/Beijing et al manage to drive their pipelines through to the coast, you need only look to the most recent dilbit spill in Arkansas.

AlterNet offers a handy summary, 6 Things You Need to Know About the Arkansas Oil Spill.

ExxonMobil which is allegedly dealing with the Arkansas clean-up has so much clout it somehow got the FAA to declare the airspace over the pipeline leak a no fly zone.   Exxon now has control of the airspace over its damned fiasco and it's even trying to throw a blanket over the state Attorney General.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, who spoke of future litigation as a “certainty,” derided attempts by ExxonMobil representatives to manage his visit to the site.
 
He added that he had issued a subpoena for documents, data and other evidence from ExxonMobil pertaining to the ruptured pipeline.

Lawyers from ExxonMobil were set to arrive Wednesday in Mayflower, Arkansas.

   And you think we don't live in a corporatist state?