
© UnknownExxon Made Us Sick: Ann Jarrell Is Outraged, and She's Not Alone
Ann Jarrell, a 54-year-old software trainer, received an urgent phone call at work from her 23-year- old daughter, Jennifer, in March of this year.
"It smells terrible out here, Mom," she said. "I don't know what's going on, but you need to get home."
What was going on was that the Pegasus pipeline, which carried Alabasca heavy crude oil (tar sands) from Illinois to Texas, had ruptured en route and the Jarrell's tiny town of Mayflower, Ark. had
a river of oil flowing through its streets.
Jarrell has long blond hair and a voice hoarse from coughing. She told me last week that she'd been sharing her home with her daughter and four-month-old grandson, Logan, at the time of the spill. Their first concern was the child, but they couldn't decide what was best for him.
Her daughter wanted to pack up the baby and leave, but Ann wasn't sure what they should do. Her first instinct was to call the police. She did so, only to find a frustrating lack of answers.
"I asked, 'Do we need to evacuate?' They said, 'Do you have oil on your property?'" Jarrell remembered. When she told them there wasn't, and reported the smell, she says the answering officer was unmoved. She says he told her not to evacuate, and that the smell was the result of some sort of police containment situation. "'The smell's just so we can tell when it breaks,'" he told her. "'Just like they do with the natural gas line."
This is not true. No such mechanism existed for the pipeline.
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