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    July 18, 2017
    Gov. Doug Burgum leads a meeting of the North Dakota Industrial Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry, at the state Capitol on Tuesday, July 18, in Bismarck. Earlier Tuesday at the Bakken conference at the Event Center, Burgum issued challenges to the oil industry, including striving for zero spills and reaching 2 million barrels per day. Mike McCleary / Bismarck Tribune
    Burgum challenges oil industry to eliminate spills, increase production
    BISMARCK — Gov. Doug Burgum issued a challenge Tuesday, July 18, to the North Dakota oil industry: Eliminate spills while doubling production...
    NewsJuly 18, 2017 - 8:35pm
    March 28, 2017
    Stacked rigs and other idle oil equipment is seen in a Nabors Drilling yard near Williston, North Dakota April 30, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen/File Photo
    Port: Reform to North Dakota’s oil spill guidelines is imperfect but an improvement over the status quo
    The problem with a lot of the reporting on oil spills in North Dakota is that it tends to lump all spills of all sizes together into one uniform...
    opinionMarch 28, 2017 - 10:05am
    September 23, 2016
    Protesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, in Los Angeles, Sept. 13, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
    Sunoco, behind protested Dakota Access pipeline, tops U.S. crude spill charts
    HOUSTON—Sunoco Logistics, the future operator of the oil pipeline delayed this month after Native American protests in North Dakota, spills...
    Energy/oilSeptember 23, 2016 - 4:44pm
    April 27, 2016
    Duke University students Nancy Lauer, left, and Jennifer Harkness collect water and soil samples at the Bear Den Bay spill site in July 2015. Photo special to Forum News Service
    Spill contamination lingering years later, study says
    WILLISTON -– Wastewater spills from North Dakota oil production have caused widespread water and soil contamination, researchers from Duke...
    Energy/oilApril 27, 2016 - 7:00pm
    April 7, 2016
    Bob Banderet, pictured in this May 2011 file photo, reported a TransCanada oil spill five years ago in southeast North Dakota. WDAY-TV file photo
    5 years after spill, rancher and ‘pipeline junkie’ still has questions
    BRAMPTON – Five years after he discovered a geyser of crude oil shooting out from a TransCanada pumping station on the Keystone pipeline, rancher...
    Energy/oilApril 7, 2016 - 6:39pm
    February 25, 2016
    BNSF to pay fines for oil, diesel spills
    WILLISTON, N.D. – BNSF Railway will pay $600,000 in fines as part of a settlement agreement for oil and diesel spills in North Dakota and other states, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. The agreement with the EPA and the Department of Justice also addresses...
    News/North DakotaFebruary 25, 2016 - 5:46pm
    January 11, 2016
    Williams County farmer Ron Sylte visits the site of a saltwater pipeline leak Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in a durum field that he farms north of Williston, N.D. (Amy Dalrymple/Forum News Service)
    Farmer says pipeline company must ‘do something better’ after second spill
    WILLISTON – The same man affected a year ago by the state’s largest pipeline spill discovered Monday that land he rents is now the site of...
    News/North DakotaJanuary 11, 2016 - 8:13pm
    January 8, 2016
    Ness: Setting the facts straight on spills
    BISMARCK — North Dakota has a very strict regulatory system, and it is often one that is looked at by other states — and in some cases, other...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 8, 2016 - 6:54pm
    March 14, 2015
    Letter: Oil and other hazardous materials spills
    What is the main reason that causes these environmental and dangerous accidents, which are preventable? Why do tanker cars leave the railroad track? If they stayed on the tracks, there would be no oil spill and no accidents. Who’s responsible for the safety of and maintenance of...
    opinion/lettersMarch 14, 2015 - 10:38pm
    Bill Fahlsing, emergency manager for Stark County, sits in his office in Dickinson. (Abby Kessler/The Dickinson Press)
    Disaster planners: Emergency managers play a key role in preventing tragedies
    When disaster strikes, recollections of ear-splitting sirens and images of white-blue flashing lights come to mind. But in addition to first...
    News/localMarch 14, 2015 - 6:35pm
    February 5, 2015
    Dems want audit for oil regulators, health dept.
    BISMARCK — Landowners and Democratic lawmakers urged a committee Thursday to support a bill that would require performance audits of two state agencies with leading regulatory roles for oil and gas development in North Dakota. House Bill 1259 would require performance audits within...
    News/legislatureFebruary 5, 2015 - 11:44pm
    January 29, 2015
    Democrat introduces oil penalties legislation
    BISMARCK — A bill introduced by a Democratic legislator would require elected officials to sign off before fines levied against oil and gas companies are reduced. Senate Bill 2342 from state Sen. Tyler Axness of Fargo would require the North Dakota Industrial Commission to vote...
    News/legislatureJanuary 29, 2015 - 10:18pm
    January 28, 2015
    FNS Photo by Kathleen J. Bryan Workers tethered to an air boat for safety squeegeed oil into holes or slots in the ice-covered Yellowstone River on Monday near Glendive, Mont. The oil was then scooped up into hand buckets or via a 2-inch suction line.
    Spills have lawmakers looking for answers
    BISMARCK — The North Dakota Industrial Commission called Wednesday for better monitoring of pipelines and higher standards for those that cross...
    Energy/BakkenJanuary 28, 2015 - 10:06pm
    December 9, 2014
    Press Photo by Andy Brown From left, landowners Larry Peterson, Pete Artz, Kent Huber and Marvin Nelson meet with North Dakota Department of Health Director David Glatt Tuesday in Antler to discuss the impacts of the oil boom
    Other side of the boom: Landowners say state bowing to oil
    ANTLER — As state officials met in Bismarck to approve new oil conditioning standards and to discuss the drop in crude oil prices, landowners...
    EnergyDecember 9, 2014 - 11:07pm
    October 3, 2014
    Submitted Photo by Patty Jensen Farmer Steve Jensen harvests durum on Sept. 16. Adjacent to his wheat field, a payloader conducts remediation work on the site of one of North Dakota's largest oil spills near Tioga.
    After the oil spill: A year later, landowners trying to ‘go with the flow’ on Tioga cleanup
    TIOGA — On Monday, Patty Jensen delivered a treat to the workers doing the cleanup on the site of one of North Dakota’s largest oil spills. For...
    Energy/oilOctober 3, 2014 - 10:10pm
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