He complained that the delegation did not visit one of the more than 800 waste water pits in North Dakota or learn of the 25 per cent that overflowed from high rainfall last spring, and that there was no mention of the well blowout on the Berthold Indian Reservation last winter, which leaked unknown fracking chemicals into Lake Sakakawea and the Missouri River. “Local media and even inspectors covered that one up. Nobody wanted to get in the way of the oil companies who are making billions, but also paying the reservation $25 million per month and climbing,” Bromley said. “Finally, while on our tour, one of the largest ever oil spills on US soil was happening in the area and no one mentioned a thing about it,” he said, regarding the pipeline rupture that leaked 20,600 barrels of oil onto the countryside, first detected at the end of September.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:42:53 +0000
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