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New Spill into Yellowstone River Prompts Pipeline Upgrade Order
2015-01-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Federal regulators on Friday ordered a pipeline company to make major upgrades to a line that spilled almost 40,000 gallons of oil into Montanas Yellowstone River and fouled a local water supply. The order comes after Bridger Pipeline of Casper, Wyoming, announced plans to bury its line deeper beneath the Yellowstone to protect against future accidents. The Department of Transportation order would make that improvement mandatory and require identical action where the line runs beneath the...
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Exxon Given $1 Million Penalty After 2011 Yellowstone River Oil Spill
2015-01-25 15:08:51| Chemicals - Topix.net
Federal officials have issued a $1 million penalty against Exxon Mobil Corp. for safety violations stemming from a pipeline rupture in 2011 that spilled 63,000 gallons of crude into Montana's Yellowstone River. The Department of Transportation order issued Friday reduces the penalty as originally proposed by about $700,000.
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Yellowstone River oil spill clean-up hindered by ice at site of pipeline break
2015-01-24 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One week after a pipeline spilled nearly 40,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River and contaminated a Montana citys water supply, clean-up crews have made little progress in their efforts to remove the oil from the partially frozen river. The site of the pipeline break, six miles upstream from the high-plains city of Glendive, Montana, is almost entirely capped in ice, complicating efforts to retrieve the oil and slowing the response process. The cause of the spill remains under...
Yellowstone Park ships 200+ bison to slaughter, more planned - conservation group
2015-01-24 06:01:50| Livestock - Topix.net
Yellowstone National Park's bison population is about to start getting much smaller, as the park has reportedly sent at least 200 bison to the slaughter in an effort to cull the winter population by approximately 900 animals. The statistics come from an American conservation group called the Buffalo Field Campaign , which has traditionally been against the park's annual attempts at bison population control, pinning the behavior on outdated laws and pressure from the livestock industry.
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Exxon gets $1 million penalty in Yellowstone spill
2015-01-24 03:07:36| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Federal officials have issued a $1 million penalty against Exxon Mobil Corp. for safety violations stemming from a pipeline rupture in 2011 that spilled 63,000 gallons of crude into Montana's Yellowstone River. The Department of Transportation order issued Friday reduces the penalty as originally proposed by about $700,000.
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