Tag: oil spill
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North Dakota farmers fear more than just oil spills
Daryl and Christine Peterson have lost over $1 million in farmland value from produced water spills. On a bright July day, Daryl Peterson stood four feet deep in his farm field. Wheat stalks waved in the breeze near his head as he held a yard stick showing the depth of a pit an oil company…
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Protecting a Montana Ranch from the Keystone XL Pipeline
“I’m Chuck Nerud, and I live north of Circle, and I’m a rancher. This is the only place I’ve ever lived. My grandparents started this ranch, and then my folks ran it, and now me. I don’t have any oil and gas development on my place now, but if the Keystone XL pipeline had been…