Gefordert ist ein weltweites Fracking-Verbot
Green groups say EPA underestimates methane leaks from fracking
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Massive crude oil spill in North Dakota
A farmer harvesting wheat discovered the spill coming from a pipeline that dumped more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil. Linda So reports.
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Oil Spills Erupt In North Dakota, Public Kept In Dark
„North Dakota, the nation’s No. 2 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 landowner group with more than 700 members in North Dakota.“* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from James MacPherson / AP:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-new…
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North Dakota pipeline leaks crude oil, 3mn gallons of fracking byproduct
The leak in the 4-inch saltwater collection line, owned by Summit Midstream Partners LP and operated by subsidiary Meadowlark Midstream Co., was discovered earlier this month and was reported to the state on January 7, according to Reuters.
The pipeline, about 15 miles north of Williston, will be out of commission for an undetermined amount of time, Summit said.
Although Williston residents receive drinking water that comes from the Missouri River, the leak does not threaten supplies, according to the North Dakota Department of Health. However, the city has the ability to shut off collection valves to avoid harmful water, Reuters reported.
Yet some of the brine made it to the Missouri River, the Williston Herald reported, and the state found „high readings“ of contamination at the confluence of the Little Muddy and Missouri Rivers southeast of Williston, according to Karl Rockeman, the director of water quality at the Department of Health.
Williston sits in the middle of North Dakota’s oil boom, and the saltwater is said to be a byproduct of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
To unleash oil or natural gas, fracking requires blasting large volumes of highly pressurized water, sand, and other chemicals into layers of rock. The contents of fracking fluid include chemicals that the energy industry and many government officials will not name, yet they insist the chemicals do not endanger human health, contradicting findings by scientists and environmentalists. Once used, toxic fracking wastewater is then either stored in deep underground wells, disposed of in open pits for evaporation, sprayed into waste fields or used over again.
Fracking has been linked to groundwater contamination, an uptick in earthquakes in other states, exacerbation of drought conditions and a host of health concerns for humans and the local environment.
read more: https://www.rt.com/usa/225671-north-dakota-fracking-spill/
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Huge North Dakota Spill Proves #NoDAPL Activists Right for Fighting Pipeline
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com
Are you still wondering why So many people support the #NoDAPL protectors? This spill is part of the reason. Imagine, if you will, tens of thousands of gallons of oil pouring into the river that provides the drinking water for over 10 million people. Would you want to drink it? or swim in it? or eat anything from it?
A North Dakota oil well owned by Oasis Petroleum Inc blew out over the weekend and has yet to be capped, leaking more than 67,000 gallons of crude so far and endangering a tributary of the Missouri River, according to Ernest Scheyder of Reuters. The cause of the blowout remains unknown, though state officials surmise it may have been caused by hydraulic fracturing of a nearby well in a situation referred to in the industry as “communication” between wells.
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/10…
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Wasser und Luft ist Leben! 