291 oil spills were hidden from North Dakota residents – in less than two years

‘When it comes to the general public being kept in the loop about matters relating to major environmental hazards, the residents of North Dakota are perhaps the most slighted of all by their own state government. A major oil and natural gas region of the country, North Dakota has had hundreds of oil spill accidents over the years that have caused noteworthy environmental destruction, but none of them, save for one, was ever reported.
Data compiled by the Associated Press (AP) shows that during the time frame from January 2012 to September 2013, North Dakota saw nearly 300 oil pipeline spills – 292 to be exact. Only one of these, which involved a tanker truck accident, was ever made public – the rest were kept secret, presumably to protect North Dakota’s oil industry, a major economic driver for this rural Midwestern state.’
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