Its the salinity. Tom Abe, FBCC Environmental Science instructor - and TAT tribal elder: He said thats the key to identifying contamination of the Missouri Rivers Bear Den Bay from Arrow pipelines one-million-gallon (1,000,000) spill near the bay. Bakken oil is 10 to 20% salty....if you know the saltiness...you got it. Nothing else is that salty. Using recent water samples from the Bear Den Bay area, his independent water quality testing show, the percentage (of toxic saltwater contamination) is high....its bad...there should be outrage, where is it?... He also said some college students - FBCC? - are also getting water samples from the bay as well. Lands of the original allottees are next to the spill site. Not only did the toxic spill hurt tribal lands, Tom told the Twin Buttes audience that the land of Old Dog, his great-grandfather, is impacted or associated with the toxic spill. Because the Arrow pipeline spill is in a watershed, everything in that area drains to the lake....Beaver dams only stop oil on the surface. The salt and other materials that are dissolved, are going to go right through, and theyre going to end up in the lake. This is the second known oil & gas spill by - or in - the Missouri Rivers Bear Den Bay in the last 3 years. This bay is the source of drinking water for most Mandaree residents. Video documentation is online of the first oil & gas spill affecting the same Missouri River bay in 2011. https://youtube/watch?v=pTzsI5_IP6U&feature=player_embedded
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 05:34:53 +0000
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