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North Dakota recorded 300 oil spills in two years without notifying public
2013-10-25 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: North Dakota, the nation's No2 oil producer behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None was reported to the public, officials said. According to records obtained by the Associated Press, the pipeline spills, many of them small, are among some 750 "oil field incidents" that have occurred since January 2012 without public notification. "That's news to us," said Don Morrison, director of the Dakota Resource Council, an environmental-minded...
Donations pour in after South Dakota storm kills up to 30,000 cattle
2013-10-25 19:59:07| Agriculture - Topix.net
Donations of money and cattle have been rolling in for South Dakota ranchers after a blizzard killed tens of thousands of cattle earlier this month.a © Dozens of minimum-security prison inmates were aiding the clean-up effort, gathering debris in three towns in the western part of the state hit by record snowfall that felled trees and knocked ... (more)
Tesoro Documents Reveal Oil Spill in North Dakota
2013-10-24 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: North Dakota, long known for its cattle ranches and open spaces, has recently become one of the oil and gas industrys most prizedand profitablepossessions, thanks to the advent of fracking. However, the price of oil and gas industry development is paid in destruction to the environment and strains to the regulatory framework meant to protect the public from a reckless industry, as Tesoros massive oil spill attests. Documents from an open records request by Greenpeace have uncovered that Tesoro,...
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North Dakota Pipeline Spill Raises Questions Amid State's Oil Boom
2013-10-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: About sundown one Sunday in September, North Dakota farmer Steven Jensen noticed that his combine was running over wet, squishy earth in a wheat field he was harvesting. When he took a closer look, he saw that oil had coated the wheels and that it was bubbling up about 6 inches high in spots. That was Sept. 29; Jensen contacted authorities immediately. At least 20,600 barrels of oil leaked onto the Jensens' land from a pipeline owned by Tesoro Logistics, one of the largest land-based spills in...
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Oil Spill in North Dakota Raises Detection Concerns
2013-10-24 01:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For several days last month, Steven Jensen smelled the oil, wafting up over his rolling wheat farm near Tioga. But in that part of northwestern North Dakota, where the rush to tap the Bakken shale field is roaring, the scent of crude is hardly uncommon. It was not until Sept. 29 that Mr. Jensen came across a six-inch spurt of oil gurgling up from his land and reported a spill. As it turned out, a Tesoro Logistics pipeline had ruptured, spreading more than 865,000 gallons of oil across seven acres...
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