North Dakota says it's looking at a system to update initial public reports on spills after revelations that a 2015 leak of natural gas was hundreds of thousands of gallons larger than disclosed.
BISMARCK, N.D. — The North Dakota Health Department’s acknowledgment this week that a 2015 pipeline leak of liquid natural gas is hundreds of thousands of gallons larger than reported raises questions about how many other spills and leaks are underreported — and state officials were not immediately able to answer Wednesday.
of gas liquids, or “condensate,” at a western North Dakota natural gas plant that was first reported as just 10 gallons is at least hundreds of thousands of gallons larger and may take an additional decade to clean up. The environmental blog DeSmog, which first reported the discrepancy, reported that the spill may be as large as 11 million gallons . The blog cited an unidentified person who provided a draft document on a cleanup plan.Glatt said the company could face sanctions but has not yet because of its efforts to clean up its site.Some groundwater was affected, regulators said, but the spill didn’t reach beyond the facility’s boundaries.
Wayde Schafer, spokesman for the state’s Sierra Club chapter, said the state’s current policy of reporting spills “is kind of worthless.”
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