Crews to clean up oil spilled into Yellowstone River from Montana pipeline

[neverforget]

Crews to clean up oil spilled into Yellowstone River from Montana pipeline

AP STORY: GLENDIVE — Crews working to clean up crude oil that spilled in and near the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana and prevent it from traveling further downstream were hampered by ice covering much of the river, officials said Monday.

Officials with Bridger Pipeline LLC of Casper, Wyoming, have said the break in the 12-inch steel pipe happened Saturday morning in an area about 9 miles upstream from Glendive, a community in east-central Montana near the North Dakota border.

Bridger spokesman Bill Salvin said Monday that the company is confident that no more than 1,200 barrels - or 50,000 gallons - of oil spilled during the hour-long breach.

"Oil has made it into the river," Salvin said. "We do not know how much at this point.

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/crews-to-clean-up-oil-spilled-into-yellowstone-river-from/article_89bcd50d-60ed-5a98-9a3d-4cecffa020e4.html#ixzz3PJd1smDF

[neverforget]

1. And they're bringing in drinking water. Thanks big oil!

UPDATE 4:36 p.m.: Officials plan to bring in truckloads of drinking water for the 6,000 residents of an eastern Montana city just downstream of an oil spill into the Yellowstone River.

State and federal officials say preliminary tests Monday indicate that at least some oil got into Glendive's public water supply, so they're bringing in outside water as a precaution.

Further tests are planned to determine whether the spill has created any public health threat.

[peacebird]

2. This makes me feel ill, i witnessed the glory of Yellowstone, Glacier, & Rocky mountain natl parks

just last summer. And the Badlands...
Sickening. And all those folks whose drinking water is now polluted... Argh.....

[malaise]

3. The corporations have respect for no one or anything

Loot and plunder then loot and plunder some more - it matters not who or what is destroyed in the process.

[lpbk2713]

4. And the half-governor's advice?

[neverforget]

5. Kick

[2naSalit]

6. Latest I heard here in MT is that oil from the spill has been detected 70 miles downstream.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Yikes!

[2naSalit]

8. That's no small spill.

Better find a new place to fish you trouthunters out there.

[neverforget]

9. Rachel Maddow is talking about this right now plus

the oil spill in 2011 at Laurel.

[Takket]

10. Bring on keystone!