As Trump Approves Pipeline, Figures Show Most Americans Oppose Drilling on Federal Lands
This article and the many that have come before, and the many that will follow unfortunately, tell the story.
— March 24, 2017 (1 hour ago)
BISMARCK, N.D. — A December oil pipeline spill in western North Dakota might have been three times larger than first estimated and among the biggest in state history, a state environmental expert said Friday.
About 530,000 gallons of oil is now believed to have spilled from the Belle Fourche Pipeline that was likely ruptured by a slumping hillside about 16 miles northwest of Belfield in Billings County, Health Department environmental scientist Bill Seuss said. The earlier estimate was about 176,000 gallons. [...]
..Soil remediation work could take "a year or more," Seuss said.
That does not seem to matter at all to the administration currently occupying the White House.
But it does to the people.
These people:
— December 13, 2016
A major oil spill just 150 miles from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota has validated the concerns of those who spoke out against the project for months, activists said.
State officials estimate that more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil has leaked from the Belle Fourche Pipeline over the past week into the Ash Coulee Creek in western North Dakota. A landowner discovered the spill near the town of Belfield on Dec. 5, according to Bill Suess, an environmental scientist with the North Dakota Health Department.
The 176,000 gallon estimated size of the oil spill was from December of 2016. It turns out that the spill is now estimated to be three times that amount — 530,000 gallons of oil was spilled. Oil that polluted the Ash Coulee Creek, a tributary of the Missouri River.
The 2,540 mile long Missouri river is the source of drinking water for millions of people that may now not be protected by the Clean Water Act as the Trump administration has begun its safety ‘deregulation’ agenda
— Opponents say the Dakota Access Oil pipeline will adversely impact drinking water and disturb sacred tribal sites. That has always been the truth. Something we could use a lot more of...
...but that’s not where we’re heading these days.
The truth and too much of the news reporting of it has become an entertainment ratings war. An alt-reality sequence of purposefully fabricated fictions supplanting our democratic process by this flood of misinformation - one example out of too many to count: the Trump regime boasting/conning the people that the Keystone XL pipeline is a “job creator” — the truth — total lasting jobs: 35
— resist