Like I said, North Dakota is floating in oil. More and more infrastructure failures. The epidemiology of the state is going to change.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A spill of 100 barrels of brine (click here) and 140 barrels of oil has been reported in Crosby.

The North Dakota Department of Health on Wednesday said 90 barrels of brine and 65 barrels of oil have been recovered, but some reached a nearby farm field and shelter belt.

Operator Samson Resources Company reported the release to authorities on Monday. The company says the failure of a valve on a saltwater disposal well led to the spill.

A state inspector is at the site located in northwest North Dakota less than 20 miles from the Canadian border.

A state official says the company is in the process of cleaning the site and is monitoring for evidence of "stressed vegetation."

Samson Resources is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This is the nearly million gallon spill in Tioga. When all is finally cleaned up I bet it tops a million gallons.

A birds-eye view (click here) of the 865,000 gallon spill of fracked oil in Tioga, ND; Photo Credit

Originally it was thought about 600,000 gallons (22,000 barrels) was spilled. Now, the measure is at least 27,000 barrels. Expected costs are over $11 million for clean up. Let's hope the land is recoverable after the clean up.

Carrying oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the controversial horizontal drilling method used to capture oil and gas found embedded in shale rock basins worldwide, the Bakken Shale pipeline spill on September 29 was the largest fracked oil spill in U.S. history. Oil spill experts say the spill may be even bigger than originally estimated. 

That is the problem with fracking. It cannot be contained. It isn't simply a pipe carrying oil to the surface. It is dissolution of land and rock which permits 'oozing' everywhere. That is grossly evident in the Alberta Tar Sands. The water contamination in the wetlands is horrible. The water is contaminated from the MIGRATION of the 'Hot Steamed Tar.' 

See, the tar can't migrate into waterways and lowlands and wetlands. It is 'in place' and too thick. Besides that it is contained within the sands of the wildlands/woodlands. It can't migrate UNTIL disturbed by human activity.

But, once the 'hot steam' is added to the fracking (And yes, they frack the oil sands as well as excavate it. Oh, you didn't know that?) the tar becomes less viscous and literally oozes everywhere through every crack and crevasse that exists. The tar is showing up all over the place. There are endangered species of fish in Canada thanks to Trans-Canada. 

But, the whole excavation nightmare is only one insult to the land. See, once Trans-Canada finishes taking the top layer of tar sands off, they then introduce fracking to extract any amount possible out of the ground that might be at depth. So, the hot steam is injected into the tar below the superficial layer and the darn stuff surfaces, but, it also travels in all directions contaminating land and water. The land and water it is contaminating doesn't even have to be nearby either. Amazing technology.

Oh, the land can't be recovered either. See, Trans-Canada wants everyone to believe there is all sorts of restoration of the land after the superficial tar sands is removed, but, that is a lie. Once the hot steam is introduced into the lower layers of tar the land becomes unstable. It will take centuries for that land to even begin to define itself as anything but dangerous. As I write this, there are creatures, not to mention trees and plants, sinking into tar pits within their habitats because of Trans Canada.

The Canadian government should be fully ashamed of itself to not only allow such exploitation of CONTAINED CARBON but to allow the voting public to be this deceived about the very land they call home.

The USA State Department report? Yeah. It never accounted for all the LOSS of carbon sinks in Canada. The State Department report LIMITS the 'cost' of energy to simply THE PROCESS. The loss of carbon sinks never entered the equation. 

Yep. 

Corrupt. 

The State Department document is corrupt because it only recognizes the northern portion of the pipeline from the USA border to the southern pipeline. The State Department report is BLIND to anything that occurs in Canada as if it isn't happening and isn't part of the carbon load of the pipeline. 

That's corruption. 

Shame on everyone involved with the State Department Report to actually limit the scope of the carbon costs. Shame, shame. I mean they didn't even properly identify the MSDS. Honestly.

The so called fracking technology used in the Alberta Tar Sands actually has a name. It is called "Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)." Guess who developed it as far back as the 1970s? Yep, Halliburton.

...With the introduction (click here) of the steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) drilling technique, production efficiencies of 60 percent or better are now possible in heavy oil reserves. Originally developed by the Alberta, Canada Department of Energy (formerly AOSTRA), Sperry Drilling’s SAGD technique utilizes twin horizontal wells, one drilled above the other, and steam injection to enhance the recovery of heavy oil. Steam is injected to the upper well, and the heated heavy oil and condensed steam are produced from the lower well. Reduced oil viscosity, along with improved sweep and displacement efficiency, provides a higher percentage of recovery than other traditional methods....

It uses huge amounts of water and HEAT to carry out the extraction of the carbon. There is absolutely no way once this technology is measured for the damage to carbon sinks and the cost of heat and water it can be in anyway 'balanced' as a beneign form of carbon fuel. The equations of any of this tilt heavily in one direction, "Huge CO2 damage through emissions to Earth's troposphere."

And yes, it was in my reply to the State Department, so within the million comments submitted the State Department can never say it didn't know.