Wildfires erupt in Canada crude patch in threat to oil sands
One 7-acre fire is within about 6 miles of MEG Energy Corp.’s Christina Lake site, which produced almost 100,000 barrels a day in May.
A crude oil pipeline has leaked an estimated 20 thousand barrels into a North Dakota wheat farm, believed to be the largest land based spill in US history.
The pipeline takes crude from Tioga, North Dakota, part of the Bakken formation to rail cars roughly 70 km away.
Early assessments of the accident state that a quarter-inch hole is to blame for the spillage.
Tesoro Logistics LP, the company in charge of the pipeline, has released a statement, claiming that no surface waters have been impacted.
2 Comments
Martin Harrington
what happens when it rains? I guess the oil soaked ground doesn’t drain down it goes back up to heaven. I think the company should build new homes for their ececutives right in the middle of the ruined farm. After all they always clean it up and make it right again , don’t they?
annonymous
Looks like there is a containment berm. the oil will thus stay in that area. Usually spill sites have the soil tested and then the contaminated soil is removed by truck and excavator to a treatment facility. Clean fill is brought in to reclaim the site.