From: Green Peace
Because that is what i keep saying to myself over and over in my head...
Melina Laboucan-Massimo at the site of an oil spill "clean up". Photo credit: Joe Whittle
Last week, a fellow member of the community of Little Buffalo and I
journeyed to the site of the April 2011 Rainbow pipeline oil spill.
What we found was a body of water that was completely black on the
surface with black sludge along the shoreline. There was no life in this
body of water nor was there any vegetation along the shoreline.
Instead, dead wood lined the shore and an awful smell permeated the
area. After 15 months, this was not what I was expecting to find in an
apparent ‘oil spill clean up area’.
Photo Credit: Joe Whittle
According to the latest update on the Plains Midstream website from July 5th, “Plains completed all of the remediated work and much of the reclamation work before the winter.”
From what I saw last week, as depicted in these pictures, this claim is clearly misleading and sorely inadequate.
It was clear that this section of the site has not been able to
support a healthy return of vegetation and it should be fenced off to
wildlife that could be in the area. However, we found tracks of deer and
wolf near the contaminated body of water.
The supposed clean up of this site is giving false hope to the public
and surrounding communities that governmental responsibility and
corporate accountability are being upheld, when in reality, they are
not.
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