Almost 300 oil pipeline spills occurred in North Dakota in less than two years, and the public were not alerted about any of them. Data shows that from January 2012 – September 2013 the pipeline spills were seen as part of around 750 “oil field incidents” that also occurred without the public being informed, according to a report by The Associated Press. 4,328 barrels worth of oil were estimated to have spilled in this period. A similar case in which a Tesoro Corp. pipeline burst resulted in approximately 20,600 barrels of oil covering an area the same size as seven football fields. The official line was that the spills had done no harm to water sources or local wildlife, and so there was no need for the public the be informed. For this time period there was only one oil spill that was reported to the public, and that was involving the collision of an oil truck. It is fair to say that many of these spills were fairly minor, and did indeed do little or no damage to the enviro...
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