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breaking: exxon oil pipeline breaks on blackfeet reservation in montana - media silent
Bookmarked 763 weeks ago article: http:theintelhubcom20110719oil-pipeline-breaks-on-blackfeet-reservation-significant-volume-of-oil-floods-cut-bank-river-montana-videoa break in an oil collection pipeline on the eastern prairie of the blackfeet reservation has led to a seepage of crude that has been flowing approximately one mile over land and into the cutbank river tribal officials received word of the spill on tuesday but it remains unclear when or why the pipeline which is managed by fx drilling actually began leaking oiltribal officials confirmed that oil was spotted in the river at least two weeks ago by a kayaker who reported the incident to 911 according to a preliminary investigation by the blackfoot environmental department fx drilling attempted to fix the pipeline after the 911 call but left the break unmended for over a week claiming they were unable to access the site also according to the investigation fx failed to initiate cleanup on the site after fixing the pipeline on wednesday nearly three weeks after the initial discovery of the spill absorbent booms were finally placed by indian country environmental associates icea on the shore of the cutbank where the oil merges with the river icea is a company contracted by the tribe to handle cleanup of oil spills on the reservationfx drilling corporation originally claimed that the leak released quottwo barrelsquot of oil or 84 gallons they later upped the estimate to 420 gallons however officials with the blackfeet environmental department have estimated the spill to be quotseveral thousand gallonsquot the volume of oil observed at the site was large enough to seep through a wheat field across a wetland and down a coulee for approximately one mile where it entered the cutbank river it is the second significant release of oil into montana rivers during the last monthseveral questions plague the indicent not least is fx drilling039s handling of the spillage their failure to disclose the event to the press community or tribal authorities has caused suspicion that their conduct was not merely negligent but indicative of a coverup according to mary clare weatherwax an official at the blackfeet environmental department quotthere was definitely a lack of communication that would have allowed a proper responsequot weatherwax was also concerned that a wetland in the path of the spill had absorbed much of the oil as it traveled downhillvideo destini vaile 2011video uploaded from:http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=vg6ejvq0ui8ampampfeature=player_embedded |
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robin young suffers health effects from bp039s gulf oil disaster
Bookmarked 792 weeks ago wherever disaster strikes there039s always an associated crudthere was the exxon valdez crud the nine eleven crud the katrina cough and then the tva coal ash coughnow along the entire coast of the gulf of mexico there is the bp crud afflicting workers and the general population from louisiana to floridawhen the deepwater horizon oil rig blew up in the gulf of mexico on april 20 robin young a 47-year-old director of guest services for a property management company in orange beach alabama was gearing up for what promised to be the best tourist season on the coast in years from the city of new orleans to the florida panhandle communities were finally starting to feel like they were recovering from the devastation left in the wake of hurricanes katrina and ivansince suffering a debilitating bought of what locals are calling the quotbp crudquot however like thousands of other people along the coast due to their exposure to the oil and chemical dispersants she is now part of a growing community of activists along the coastthis video interview was produced to go with a story written by glynn wilson and funded in part by spotusit is available on the web at this permalink in the locust fork news-journalhttp:bloglocustforknet201009thousands-of-people-along-the-gulf-coast-suffer-bp-crudcontribute to help cover the expenses of this independent journalism at spotushttp:spotusstories574-bp-s-oil-spill-is-causing-health-problems-the-human-story |
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anti-republican funny song
Bookmarked 732 weeks ago if you vote republican as a rule of thumb you039re either filthy rich or you039re filthy dumb |
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quothope and changequotstill looking back at 4 years of quotchangequot -- fox and friends -- 5-30-12
Bookmarked 718 weeks ago hats off to chris white -- fox news associate producer for putting together this brilliant video compilation of what the past 4 years of 039hope and changequot has really brought to this country |