The Arkansas Times turns 50 in 2024. To celebrate our golden anniversary, we’re looking back at the past half-century and sharing excerpts from some of our favorite pieces of reporting.
Pegasus Pipeline
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Proposed $1.8 million settlement filed over Exxon’s 2013 Mayflower oil spill
The proposal by ExxonMobil and the state and federal governments would result in almost $1.8 million going to restore the area’s natural resources.
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A modest proposal: Sell the Pegasus pipeline to Central Arkansas Water
If you can’t beat a pipeline buy it. Or so proposes Central Arkansas Water for a potentially problematic oil pipeline
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Not COVID-19: The perilous Pegasus Pipeline
There is a world outside coronavirus. Example 1: For my money, the best article in the morning Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was the op-ed by Tad Bohannon, chief executive of Central Arkansas Water, on plans afoot to reopen the Pegasus Pipeline, which ruptured and gushed oil in Mayflower seven years ago.
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Testing the Pegasus pipeline
The owner of the Pegasus pipeline provides a comment about news that the line that ruptured near Mayflower in 2013 is undergoing testing for a possible restart.
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Plans underway to reopen pipeline that burst in Arkansas
Central Arkansas Water has been informed that plans are underway to restart the Pegasus pipeline, which ruptured in Arkansas in 2013.
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Judge approves Mayflower settlement, rejects bid to force Exxon to move pipeline
U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker today signed off on a settlement agreement between ExxonMobil and several state and federal entities concerning the 2013 rupture of the Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower. The news is a setback for Central Arkansas Water, which has been fighting make the terms of the consent decree tougher.
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Federal judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit against ExxonMobil over pipeline break
A federal judge has refused an ExxonMobil request to dismiss a federal-state lawsuit over the crude oil pipeline spill in Mayflower a year ago.
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Exxon points to rare chemical mix as Pegasus flaw
By putting the focus on atypical pipe properties and away from a well-known manufacturing defect of the type of pipe used in the northern section that includes Arkansas, it would seem that Exxon is casting the rupture as caused by a rare flaw.
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Will Exxon move the Pegasus pipeline out of Lake Maumelle’s watershed? Probably not without a fight.
The Clinton School hosted a panel discussion Monday afternoon commemorating the one year anniversary of ExxonMobil’s oil spill in Mayflower. In attendance: Congressman Tim Griffin, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, Tammie Hynum of ADEQ, Graham Rich of Central Arkansas Water (CAW), and Faulkner County Judge Allen Dodson, with Dean Skip Rutherford moderating. (Rutherford said that Exxon had been invited to send someone as well.) It was a packed house; public interest in the incident and the future of the ruptured Pegasus pipeline evidently remains high, in no small part because the line just south of Mayflower crosses 13 miles of watershed that drain into Little Rock’s major drinking reservoir, Lake Maumelle.