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In North Dakota, New Concerns Over Mixing Oil and Wheat – Worst Oil Pipeline Spill on U.S. Soil

Pipeline owner Tesoro inspected the line just a couple of weeks before the leak was discovered

The oil company that owns a pipeline that leaked more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil in North Dakota says it inspected the line just a couple of weeks before the leak was discovered, the Associated Press reports. But it has yet to share the findings of that inspection with state regulators.

Farmer Steve Jensen found the leak in the undergound pipeline September 29 in one of his wheat fields. The leak eventually affected an area the size of seven football fields, making it the largest pipeline spill on U.S. soil, according to Fox News and AP.

The pipeline, which runs about 35 miles through northwest North Dakota, is owned by Tesoro.

Full Story: http://www.dailyyonder.com/roundup-worst-oil-pipeline-spill/2013/10/17/6871

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In North Dakota, New Concerns Over Mixing Oil and Wheat

While three generations of the Sorenson family have made their livelihood growing wheat and other crops here, they also have learned to embrace the furious pace of North Dakota’s oil exploration. After all, oil money helped the Sorensons acquire the land and continue to farm it.

But more oil means more drilling, resulting in tons of waste that is putting cropland at risk and raising doubt among farmers that these two cash crops can continue to coexist.

By JOHN ELIGON

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/us/in-north-dakota-new-concerns-over-mixing-oil-and-wheat.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&hpw=&adxnnlx=1382098421-yk4zeXSVfv/pFNdS4CV0eg

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