Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez? | DeSmogBlog

Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez? | DeSmogBlog: In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs. But a whistle-blower has revealed to DeSmog the incident is actually on par with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, which released roughly 11 million gallons of thick crude.