North Dakota may be hiding an oil spill larger than the Exxon Valdez

Workers cleaning up an oil spill in North Dakota that is officially listed as 10 gallons recovered 240,000 gallons, but the actual number might be larger than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 which released about 11 million gallons of crude.

The discrepancy in the numbers, first reported by the environmental blog DeSmog, shows how inadequate North Dakota’s policy is for reporting spills. The state doesn’t update initial public reports on spills.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/north-dakota-may-be-hiding-an-oil-spill-larger-than-the-exxon-valdez/