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Exxon Manages No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Oil Spill

No Fly Zone over Mayflower, Arkansas

No Fly Zone over Mayflower, Arkansas

An Exxon pipe leaked, flooding 500,000 gallons of crude oil onto Mayflower, Arkansas. Exxon is in charge of a No Fly Zone in the vicinity of the spill.

  1. Do independent observers who want to witness the tar sands spill disaster have to ask Exxon’s permission?
  2. Why Is Exxon Controlling the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill?
  3. Because it wants to? Because it can?

Because … the FAA put an Exxon employee in charge of a  no-fly zone over Exxon’s latest oil spill.

Contact the FAA at (866) 835-5322 and the White House  at (202) 456-1111 to ask Why is an oil company managing a no-fly-zone over an oil spill it caused? Why is a publicly traded for-profit oil company that caused an oil spill managing air traffic in the vicinity of the oil spill?

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Disaster Accountability Project needs your votes to win $5,000 grant

The Disaster Accountability Project needs your votes – which in this case means just icons

following the link below and then adding a comment (any comment will do – and if you’re so inclined, you can use the mark #poplog so we can see how many Popular Logistics readers participated).Here’s the rest of the information you need, from Ben Smilowitz, the founder of DAP:

I posted a letter on the Disaster Accountability Project’s blog that includes a link to a PDF that you can use to help recruit votes for the Social Media Competition!

Vote Here: http:// tinyurl.com/voteDAP


Blog Post: http://bit.ly/4ptpm2

Thank you!!
Ben

PS: please forward this note to 10 friends and ask them to vote for Disaster Accountability here: http://tinyurl.com/voteDAP

So go tohttp://tinyurl.com/voteDAP – and show your support for the Disaster Accountability Project – the only non-governmental organization holding government,the private sector and nonprofits to account when it comes to disaster services.