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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...

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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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