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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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