The Colbert Report last night featuredย DeSmogBlog‘s investigative findings on the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delegating authority over its โno-fly zoneโ above the Mayflower tar sands spill site toย ExxonMobil โaviation advisor,โ Tom Suhrhoff.
Stephen parodied Exxon’s secrecy at the site ofย ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill, honing in on the fact that the โprivate empireโ threatened a reporter at Inside Climate News with arrest when she sought to ask a spokesperson questions at the spill relief command center headed by Exxon.ย ย
On March 29, Exxon’s Pegasus pipeline spilled up to an estimated 7,000 barrels of tar sands diluted bitumen (โdilbitโ) into Mayflower’s neighborhoods and surrounding wetlands, causing the evacuation of 22 homes.ย Exxon’s poor handling of the spill clean-up was also featured in the April 8 edition of โThe Rachel Maddow Show.โ
Check out โThe Colbert Reportโ segment:
