From DemocracyNow.org:
July 05, 2011
Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Extent of Damage from Oil Spill Into Yellowstone River
Click here to see more photos of oil on Alexis Bonogofsky’s land.Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, didn’t get a phone call from ExxonMobil Pipeline Company when its pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water and onto neighboring land of property owners such as herself. Instead, she discovered “globs of oil” Saturday morning while checking on the flooded pastureland where she grazes her goats. Since then she says company officials have failed to answer her questions about the health and environmental impact of the spill.
What’s ironic is that the Yellowstone River is known as “America’s last best river”. What’s even more ironic is that TransCanada is hoping to be allowed by the US State Department to pipe tar sands from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
What could go wrong?
