oil spill at mayflower arkansas

It really blows my mind to see the exxon update on this spill with the caption their is no danger to the lake and on the same page it shows a guy kneeling down with a suction vac taking oil off of water and you can see the boom in the same picture! Is their anything being put out by a state or federal enity checking this? and having the same results? I believe that tar sand oil jells and would sink! that seemed to be the case in mich. we also had that problem in lousianna!
the public needs to be represented with information gathered by other than that provided by the company whose pipeline ruptured!