Landowners and lithium companies don’t seem to agree on how much the rights to south Arkansas brine are worth.
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Government sues ExxonMobil 11 years after Mayflower oil spill
The oil spill resulting from a cracked pipeline dumped tens of thousands of gallons of heavy crude oil into a neighborhood, forcing the demolition of some houses.
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Arkansas ‘lithium summit’ kicks off Thursday in Little Rock
Arkansas is still new to the lithium extraction scene, but experts in the industry have wasted no time in organizing a conference.
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Sanders rips president’s EV plans after promoting Arkansas lithium production
Gov. Sarah Sanders ripped President Biden’s mandate for electric vehicles about two months after trumpeting lithium production in south Arkansas. Lithium is a key component in batteries for electric vehicles.
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Best and Worst 2023
Here’s the thing about 2023: You have to grade it on a curve. Things weren’t great; they could have been a whole lot worse.
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Exxon comes to town: The Arkansas Times’ Week in Review podcast, Nov. 19, 2023
This week on the Arkansas Times podcast: lithium extraction, tornado recovery and more alarming financial news from the LRSD.
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Exxon to begin producing lithium in south Arkansas by 2027 and scale up rapidly
The oil giant said it hopes to produce enough lithium by 2030 to “supply the manufacturing needs of well over a million [electric vehicles] per year.”
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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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ExxonMobil plans press event on its disaster contribution
ExxonMobil, whose pipeline showed heavy crude on Mayflower and has more recently been criticized by Gov. Mike Beebe for the nature of its response to another disaster in the area, the recent tornadoes, is going to showcase its contribution to disaster relief at a press event today.