North Dakota Fracking: Behind the Oil-Train Explosions Volatile Gases Arent Removed From Bakken Shale Crude; The Regulations Are Silent Only one stabilizer has been built—and isnt yet operating—to make Bakken Shale oil safer Energy companies spent hundred of millions of dollars to make Texas shale oil less dangerous. But the effort hasnt been made in North Dakotas Bakken Shale, leading to fiery train crashes. online.wsj/articles/north-dakota-fracking-behind-the-oil-train-explosions-1404761720 Lacking that infrastructure, stripping out volatile liquids could hurt profits by reducing the volume of crude for sale. Stabilizing the crude could cut potential revenue by perhaps 2%, an industry executive estimates.--WSJ For 2 friggen %; people have died, and all of the people in charge were/are willing to let more people die. Ive heard no one of authority in this NDGOP controlled State say anything to the contrary...and Ive badgered each and every one of them. In North Dakotas Bakken Shale oil field, nobody installed the necessary equipment. The result is that the second-fastest growing source of crude in the U.S. is producing oil that pipelines often would reject as too dangerous to transport.--WSJ This is what I would say about removing the volatility, IF THERE IS A SCIENTIFIC WAY TO DO THAT. --Congressman Kevin Cramer, in a July 1 online Town Hall, questioning whether it is possible to remove the explosive chemicals from Bakken crude...something oil producers have been doing for nearly a century. Cramer was on the ND PSC less than two years ago. [email protected] (Jack) Dalrymple said there were not enough facilities in place in North Dakota to make that a viable option. Our Governor, on deploying stabilizers to remove flammable natural gas liquids (NGLs) from Bakken crude before it is loaded onto rail cars, evidently speaking on behalf of the ND Petroleum Council. June 24 (Reuters) I would expect that anyone living by the railroad tracks know the dangers if they dont they should educate themselves on the facts of these dangers. They can contact the BNSF people to get this information. It has to be listed on what travels through their area. We are not at the mercy of the ND petroleum council or the NDGOP. --ND State Senator Oley Larsen, via email June 5 (Lynn) Helms said some also are trying to raise fears about moving Bakken crude by rail, after a train carrying it derailed and exploded in the Canadian province of Quebec in July, killing 47 people. He said there’s a plan to develop a white paper through the Pipeline Authority (Directed by Justin Kringstad) that will analyze Bakken crude and try “to dispel this myth that it is somehow an explosive really dangerous thing to have traveling up and down your rail lines.” December 13, 2013 (Forum News Service) Helms is the Director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, and is an unelected employee of the Industrial Commission...Dalrymple, Goehring, and Stenehjem. Seven weeks previous, there were 300 foot fireballs in Alabama, from a Bakken Oil Train Derailment, and two weeks later, Casselton. No white paper has been seen, and Helms still works there. “Until we have data that reflects otherwise, crude is crude and it’s been moved by train for a long time.” --State Mineral Resources spokeswoman Alison Ritter, December 16, 2013 (AP) Seven weeks previous...blah, blah, blah... Everyone else: No response. Who doesnt have friends or family that live, work, eat, shop...within 6-8 blocks of the railroad, somewhere in the country, where the Bakken oil trains travel? You dont really expect sociopathic corporations to care; but the people we elect to serve and protect us, cant get away with this callous disregard of lives. And, no...holding emergency drills to prepare for casualties, because oil companies are too cheap to make their product as safe as possible, doesnt cut it, Mr. Dalrymple. These are the people that have the power to make this nonsense stop... The North Dakota Industrial Commission [email protected] Governor Jack Dalrymple Chief of Staff Ron Rauschenberger [email protected] Senior Policy Advisors Kayla Effertz [email protected] Jody Link [email protected] Tami Ternes [email protected] Andrea Travnicek [email protected] Jerod Tufte [email protected] Jeff Zent [email protected] Ag Commissoner Doug Goehring Deputy Ag Commissioner Tom Bodine [email protected] Assistant to the Commissioner Jody Reinke [email protected] [email protected] @NDagriculture Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem [email protected]@WStenehjem [email protected] The North Dakota Public Service Commission [email protected]@NDPSC Commissioner Julie Fedorchak [email protected] @fedorchak4PSC Commissioner Randy Christmann [email protected] @Christmann_R Commissioner Brian Kalk [email protected] brian@briankalk @briankalk The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources Oil & Gas Division [email protected] Director Lynn Helms [email protected] Assistant Director Oil and Gas Division Bruce E. Hicks [email protected] Spokesperson Alison Ritter [email protected] The North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad jjkringstad@ndpipelines (Lobbyists) The North Dakota Petroleum Council [email protected] President Ron Ness [email protected] Vice President Kari Cutting [email protected] Spokesperson Tessa Sandstrom [email protected]
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