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Large North Dakota Oil Spill Spotlights Obama Delay on Pipeline Rules
2013-10-30 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Three years after an oil pipeline rupture in Michigan spilled 843,000 gallons of sludge, government regulators still havent produced promised rules to compel operators to detect leaks. An oil spill in North Dakota last month and the continued debate over construction of TransCanada Corp. (TRP)s Keystone XL Pipeline have led to renewed criticism to the governments inaction on safety measures. Its outrageous, Rick Kessler, Pipeline Safety Trusts president and a Washington lobbyist, said...
$170M North Dakota natural gas pipeline completed
2013-10-29 19:19:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Alliance Pipeline have announced the completion of an 80-mile pipeline to carry natural gas from Tioga to Sherwood, where it meets with the company's existing natural gas line that moves the gas to Chicago.
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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...
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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