It's true.
Right there at the border of Montana and North Dakota.
How did Exxon manage to build an oil refinery on the Yellowstone River?
This is the beauty of the Yellowstone River.
Updated:
A Bozeman environmental group (click here) was disappointed but not surprised to hear that a Billings Exxon refinery had an oil spill.
On Tuesday afternoon, an unknown individual from the refinery called the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Response Center to report that the ExxonMobile refinery in Billings had spilled an unknown quantity of petroleum product into the Yellowstone River....
...Montana Department
of Environmental Quality spokesman Chris Saeger said a foot-wide oil
sheen around 100 yards long was visible in the river.
John Meyer,
executive director of Cottonwood, said the spill occurred at one of
dozens of facilities that his group has tried to bring to the attention
of the DEQ.
In April,
Cottonwood, formerly known as the Cottonwood Environmental Law Center,
and Montana River Action sued the DEQ under the Clean Water Act for
failing to monitor several facilities, including the ExxonMobile
refinery....
