If the oil spilled is Bakken Crude, we already know North Dakota is negligent.
Article by: JAMES MACPHERSON
Associated Press
Updated: April 29, 2014 - 4:40 PM
Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, Montana mark billionth barrel of crude oil production (click here)
BISMARCK, N.D. — Oil drillers targeting the rich Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota and eastern Montana have produced 1 billion barrels of crude, data from the two states show.
Drillers first targeted the Bakken in Montana in 2000 and moved into North Dakota about five years later using advanced horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques to recover oil trapped in a thin layer of dense rock nearly two miles beneath the surface.
North Dakota has generated 852 million barrels of Bakken crude, and Montana has produced about 151 million barrels through the first quarter of 2014, data show....
It would seem as though North Dakota has allowed massive drilling and extraction far beyond the transportation infrastructure completely disregarding the lives of Canadians and Americans alike.
The companies involved in this drilling and extraction are liable in pushing the infrastructure to the point of breaking. Human beings have limits and the industry never bothered to measure it's ability to move it's product safely. Infrastructure and it's capacity is important to understand the limits of safety and how industry needs to address it's abuse.
Public policy matters.
See, regardless of how public policy addresses infrastructure the greed of Wall Street will go beyond any capacity to contain it. So, if the USA and/or Canada built infrastructure after infrastructure after infrastructure with TAXPAYER DOLLARS, the capacity to abuse the limits of that infrastructure safety is always present. So, there can be pipelines and rail services and truck transportation built to accommodate, but, that causes huge debt problems and Wall Street is completely irreverent anyway.
People need more than petroleum infrastructure, they need schools and hospitals and all sorts of things, too.
Currently, North Dakota is swimming in oil. Literally. There is a pipeline leak that has caused extensive damage to farmland which will require a MINIMUM of two years to restore IF it can be completely restored at all.
The negligence by the state government to put public safety ahead of industry greed is enormous. North Dakota will eventually increase in cancer occurrences and death due to the dense petroleum pollution.
And there has yet to be established an industry wide fund to provide health care and disability income to citizens as there was with Black Lung.
Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease) (click here)
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust. It is also known as Black Lung Disease. There are two types of pneumoconiosis— simple, known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and complicated, known as progressive massive fibrosis (PMF). Pneumoconiosis is a type of interstitial lung disease. In this type of disease: the lung is damaged (in this case, by coal dust); the walls of the air sacs are inflamed; and the lung stiffens from scarring of the tissue between the air sacs. There is no known treatment for pneumoconiosis, but doctors treat the symptoms and complications of the disease.
26 U.S. Code § 9501 - Black Lung Disability Trust Fund (click here)
Currently, the USA Taxpayer is left holding the bag for these afflictions of it's citizens when it comes to the petroleum industry. We know where oil spills occur there is exposure to citizens of toxins within that exposure. There is also lack of public education regarding these dangers when they occur. There needs to be evacuation paid for by the industry and followed up by health care over at least the next 20 years following a petroleum incident, but, best at least 30 years.
Article by: JAMES MACPHERSON
Associated Press
Updated: April 29, 2014 - 4:40 PM
Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, Montana mark billionth barrel of crude oil production (click here)
BISMARCK, N.D. — Oil drillers targeting the rich Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota and eastern Montana have produced 1 billion barrels of crude, data from the two states show.
Drillers first targeted the Bakken in Montana in 2000 and moved into North Dakota about five years later using advanced horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques to recover oil trapped in a thin layer of dense rock nearly two miles beneath the surface.
North Dakota has generated 852 million barrels of Bakken crude, and Montana has produced about 151 million barrels through the first quarter of 2014, data show....
It would seem as though North Dakota has allowed massive drilling and extraction far beyond the transportation infrastructure completely disregarding the lives of Canadians and Americans alike.
The companies involved in this drilling and extraction are liable in pushing the infrastructure to the point of breaking. Human beings have limits and the industry never bothered to measure it's ability to move it's product safely. Infrastructure and it's capacity is important to understand the limits of safety and how industry needs to address it's abuse.
Public policy matters.
See, regardless of how public policy addresses infrastructure the greed of Wall Street will go beyond any capacity to contain it. So, if the USA and/or Canada built infrastructure after infrastructure after infrastructure with TAXPAYER DOLLARS, the capacity to abuse the limits of that infrastructure safety is always present. So, there can be pipelines and rail services and truck transportation built to accommodate, but, that causes huge debt problems and Wall Street is completely irreverent anyway.
People need more than petroleum infrastructure, they need schools and hospitals and all sorts of things, too.
Currently, North Dakota is swimming in oil. Literally. There is a pipeline leak that has caused extensive damage to farmland which will require a MINIMUM of two years to restore IF it can be completely restored at all.
The negligence by the state government to put public safety ahead of industry greed is enormous. North Dakota will eventually increase in cancer occurrences and death due to the dense petroleum pollution.
And there has yet to be established an industry wide fund to provide health care and disability income to citizens as there was with Black Lung.
Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease) (click here)
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust. It is also known as Black Lung Disease. There are two types of pneumoconiosis— simple, known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and complicated, known as progressive massive fibrosis (PMF). Pneumoconiosis is a type of interstitial lung disease. In this type of disease: the lung is damaged (in this case, by coal dust); the walls of the air sacs are inflamed; and the lung stiffens from scarring of the tissue between the air sacs. There is no known treatment for pneumoconiosis, but doctors treat the symptoms and complications of the disease.
26 U.S. Code § 9501 - Black Lung Disability Trust Fund (click here)
Currently, the USA Taxpayer is left holding the bag for these afflictions of it's citizens when it comes to the petroleum industry. We know where oil spills occur there is exposure to citizens of toxins within that exposure. There is also lack of public education regarding these dangers when they occur. There needs to be evacuation paid for by the industry and followed up by health care over at least the next 20 years following a petroleum incident, but, best at least 30 years.
