Bob Bandaret, a farmer near Cogswell, ND, describes the tar sands blowout he witnessed near his land in 2011.
The tar sands blowout that Banderet witnessed is particularly relevant today, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just given TransCanada the green light to begin construction of portions of the “southern leg” of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf, where much of the heavy crude will be refined and exported.
Voices Against Tar Sands is a website devoted to people’s stories about the fight against dangerous tar sands oil mining and pipeline projects in North America.
(Source: switchboard.nrdc.org)
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Ludden, ND, May 2011. One year after the Keystone I was built, a 60-foot plume of toxic tar sands oil befouls fields....
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