Exxon's Arkansas Tar Sands Spill: The Tar Sands Name Game | Common Dreams

Exxon's Arkansas Tar Sands Spill: The Tar Sands Name Game | Common Dreams
"As the American public becomes acquainted with images of tar sands flowing across lawns, driveways and streets of an Arkansas suburb near Little Rock (for video of the spill go here), Exxon is now making the claim that the crude spilled from its ruptured Pegasus pipeline isn’t technically tar sands. This attempt is reminiscent of the knots that Enbridge tied itself into to deny that the million gallons of tar sands it spilled into the Kalamazoo River weren’t actually tar sands."