did you know the North Dakota's had become the second largest oil-producing
state
it you know I know that there was a boom in North Dakota I know that being
get a lot of oil I didn't know that it had a gone up to the to those levels
were turns out
on the sly of school so also got up to historic levels
here's another factor didn't know until today says Jan your 2012 in North Dakota
there've been three hundred oil spills and I'll pick that
euphemism 750 oilfield
incidents up now Ishtam my fault that I didn't know the latter
fact it's because until today do you know how many
over those spills and incidents were reported to the public
Siro none of that
why would be inconvenient if we were to let the public know what's actually
going on there
now look is love people Northcote Dakota just let's be fair and honest about this
that are ecstatic
about to all the oil found in North Dakota cuz there's more jobs
better-paying jobs that's real
and you you gotta be balance on that right on the other hand
they're also bothered by giant oil spills that are found
in their neighborhood especially when the government is basically working with
the oil companies to cover that up
ninety tell a good citizens in North Dakota will have more jobs
in this case and that's not always the case but in this case there are some
more jobs in North Dakota
and other hand you might have all schools they might vote yes anyway
we should let him know so the reason we found out about this is because
there was an oil spill that we just discovered in a wheat field earlier this
month
that spoke 20,000 barrels of crude oil
and it was on reported for 11 days
finally like the farmer who discovered hidden and some others like week because
it's ever gonna report this is a giant oil spill in the know the state
so then when they looked into it turns out of course that there'd been far more
oil spills now they're producing a million barrels a day they've got 2500
miles a new pipeline since last year in North Dakota
you think things are gonna go wrong no I mean look when they are you for the
Keystone pipeline to be built that brings the
tar sands oil from Canada all the way down Texas by the way to ship
outside this country not to keep in the United States but the ship
outside for cattle know how that helps domestic oil production
but anyway when they are you for the public is all that separates
but that's gonna be perfectly safe me we got a bill that right away
but still be perfectly safe remember North Dakota
where they're worse you know just as last year alone 300 or oil spills they
didn't even tell you about
schools are building in a hurry and they're not but
equipped to be able to do that in fact when you
at 02 Jeffrey Weiss was the head of the office a pipeline safety at the federal
pipeline
and hazardous materials Safety Administration so mouthful
he says basically look man I can do fines but with the two million dollar
fine gonna go
due to a large oil company that makes so much why does work for small
I would argue start there and see where else you can go up
8 it's a good start Italy don't just throw up your hands are ours it to me if
I know going to dissolve items or not
but now to be fair to he says the I need more laws and regulations on this
but they build a pipeline is in a year but I can get a new law to three years
last part how the scam works right and
so he say well I'm asking the corporations to voluntarily control
themselves
I in fact let's go to Carl Weimer is the help I by safety trust
and he said there earlier in an earlier interview
to that much to the profs process from
determining the router the new pipelines oversight and compliance
existing ones is left up to the companies themselves
gee I wonder why we have three hundred oil spills
turns out the company's will give a damn if the spill all over your farm or
anywhere else in North Dakota
they don't live in North Dakota they get the cash from North Dakota
but they don't have to live in the middle that oil spill might want to
regulate
but to one more quote here from Think Progress they say
at the end of the day according to Carl Weimer
each company is just trying to capitalize
and make money to which I say: all call
of this of course that's all they're trying to do
they have a fiduciary responsibility to make every rents said
at a North Dakota and cleaning up north dakota
while that only takes those pennies away from them and they're not interested in
that
so North Dakota the oil is yes you get some other
resources we get a lot of the resources from it
but oil problems that you have the spills on the incidence et cetera
as for you to deal with and we'll see you and we certainly don't want to be