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North Dakota's oil boom brings damage!
Many more illicit releases went unreported, state regulators acknowledge, when companies dumped truckloads of toxic fluid along the road or drained waste pits illegally.
http://www.nationofchange.org/north-dakota-s-oil-boom-brings-damage-along-prosperity-1339341620
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North Dakota's oil boom brings damage! (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Jun 2012
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tawadi
(2,110 posts)1. Irreparable harm, for short-term gain. eom
Lasher
(27,641 posts)2. Sounds just like the behavior of coal companies in my state.
Our river used to run black almost every Sunday morning around daylight. It didn't help to report it to anybody. That was back in the '60s and '70s.
TBF
(32,106 posts)3. Friends of mine lost a son there last year -
explosion while fixing one of the oil wells. I can only imagine what that area is like. To be sure they are creating jobs, but in an environment of much less regulation there are bound to be serious issues re safety and the environment.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)4. We here are SOOOO damn fucked.