North Dakota

Heimdal, North Dakota Evacuated After Train Derailment

May 7, 2015 Valley News Live, www.valleynewslive.com Educate! Environment, North Dakota, Oil Train

Another train derailment, another city and another group of residents displaced. "You have to evacuate right now and I said 'what about my dog' and they said he would be fine, so I hope he's doing okay," explains rural Heimdal resident Linda Georgeson. The town of Heimdal, North Dakota, was evacuated after an oil train went off the tracks about 1.5 miles from the town and started on fire around 7:30 a.m. Heimdal is in between Harvey and New Rockford, North Dakota. "A big plume, I thought it was a tornado, the way it looked it was just going swirly," said rural Heimdal resident Arden Georgeson. BNSF said in a statement the train was carrying crude oil. No injuries have been reported. Ten tankers started on fire. All but two of the 109 cars on that train carried crude oil.

North Dakota Pipeline Leaks Crude Oil, 3mn Gallons Of Byproduct

January 27, 2015 RT, www.rt.com Educate! Fracking, North Dakota, Oil Spill

Nearly 3 million gallons of saltwater and an as yet unknown amount of crude oil have leaked from a northwest North Dakota pipeline into a creek that feeds into the Missouri River. Officials have called the leak the largest of its kind in state history. 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.

The Dangerous Deadly Reality Of Oil Trains

November 27, 2014 Isaiah Thomspon, www.propublica.org Educate! Environment, North Dakota, Oil & Gas, Transportation

Much of North Dakota's oil is being transported by rail, rather than through pipelines, which are the safest way to move crude. Tank carloads of crude are up 50 percent this year from last. Using rail networks has saved the oil and gas industry the time and capital it takes to build new pipelines, but the trade-off is greater risk: Researchers estimates that trains are three and a half times as likely as pipelines to suffer safety lapses. Indeed, since 2012, when petroleum crude oil first began moving by rail in large quantities, there have been eight major accidents involving trains carrying crude in North America. In the worst of these incidents, in July, 2013, a train derailed at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and exploded, killing 47 and burning down a quarter of the town.

North Dakota Farmers Fight Oil Boom Contamination

September 8, 2014 Laura Gottesdiener, www.america.aljazeera.com Educate! North Dakota, Oil, pollution, Water

Last summer, in a wet, remote section of farm country in Bottineau County, landowner Mike Artz and his two neighbors discovered that a ruptured pipeline was spewing contaminated wastewater into his crop fields. “We saw all this oil on the low area, and all this salt water spread out beyond it,” said his neighbor Larry Peterson, who works as a farmer and an oil-shale contractor. “The water ran out into the wetland.” It was August, and all across Artz’s farm the barley crop was just reaching maturity. But near the spill, the dead stalks had undeveloped kernels, which, the farmers knew, meant that the barley had been contaminated weeks earlier. Soon after, state testing of the wetlands showed that chloride levels were so high, they exceeded the range of the test strips. The North Dakota Department of Health estimated that between 400 to 600 barrels of wastewater, the equivalent of 16,800 to 25,200 gallons, had seeped into the ground. Wastewater, known as “saltwater” because of its high salinity, is a by-product of oil drilling, which has been a boom-and-bust industry in North Dakota since at least the 1930s. Far saltier than ocean water, this wastewater is toxic enough to sterilize land and poison animals that mistakenly drink it. “You never see a saltwater spill produce again,” Artz said, referring to the land affected by the contamination. “Maybe this will be the first, but I doubt it.”

Unmitigated Disaster: A Report From The Oil Wastes

January 23, 2014 Staff, www.uneditedmedia.com Educate! Environment, North Dakota, Oil and Gas, Radiation

Skokos explained, “What goes down must come up. There’s going to be [chemicals] coming up from these wells.” Not only are all the chemicals being pushed down the wells coming back up and some of the already radioactive chemicals are coming back out in the brine and produced water, but a concentration of NORM (Normally occurring radioactive material) is rising from where it was static, beneath the surface. Skokos said we’re surrounded by NORM in low concentration and that these dangerous radioactive materials aren’t really accessible to humans, but become accessible when the oil industry comes in and fracks a well creating waste or TENORM, “Technologically enhanced normally occurring radioactive material”.

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