Exxon oil spill on Yellowstone River disrupts ranches, farms

[dbackjon]

Environmental officials scrambled on Tuesday to assess the extent of contamination from a weekend oil spill that has fouled water supplies and ranch lands along a scenic and otherwise pristine stretch of the Yellowstone River in Montana.

An Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured on Friday night about 150 miles downstream from Yellowstone National Park near the town of Laurel, Montana, just southwest of Billings, dumping up to 1,000 barrels, or 42,000 gallons, of crude oil into the flood-swollen river.

Toxic fumes from the oil overcame a number of people who reported breathing problems and dizziness and were taken to local hospitals. But state and federal officials on Tuesday said they lacked a tally of health problems or the number of riverside homes that were evacuated after the accident.

The spill also has wreaked havoc on ranching and farming operations along the Yellowstone, the longest river without a dam in the United States, which provides irrigation and drinking water for communities along its banks.

Cathy Williams, who raises livestock, wheat, alfalfa and hay with her husband Jerry on some 800 acres of land around Laurel, said high water from the river has washed oil across much of his property.

"It was the night the river peaked, so the river water was flooded all over the place, and that brought oil all over both ranches," she told Reuters. "All of our grasslands ... have just thick, black crude stuck to all the grass, trees, low lands."

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[grizzaholic]

It is ok. Oil is good for the rivers...right CLENZ?

[93henfan]

Well, when you kiss Exxon's ass...

[houndawg]

Well, when you kiss Exxon's ass...

Blue = USA

Red = Dumbfvckistan

[Grizalltheway]

Well, when you kiss Exxon's ass...

Does your state kiss the ass of EVERY big corporation in the country?

[grizzaholic]

Well, when you kiss Exxon's ass...

For IOWA...actually I think big oil laughs at IOWA.

[93henfan]

Does your state kiss the ass of EVERY big corporation in the country?

No. Only 60% of them. Check your math next time.

[citdog]

Well, when you kiss Exxon's ass...

Blue = USA

Red = Dumbfvckistan

Would it upset you if those shaded in red (clearing throat) Confederated together?



I wanna be the first to blame

[Grizalltheway]

Does your state kiss the ass of EVERY big corporation in the country?

No. Only 60% of them. Check your math next time.

My apologies.

[clenz]

It is ok. Oil is good for the rivers...right CLENZ?

I have no opinion on this. If I were to share my opinion, like I did last year I would be ridiculed. If im correct like I was with th je gulf it will be too far away to brag about it. If wromg mlre dumb fucking iowa jokes from you dumb fucks

[grizzaholic]

It is ok. Oil is good for the rivers...right CLENZ?

I have no opinion on this. If I were to share my opinion, like I did last year I would be ridiculed. If im correct like I was with th je gulf it will be too far away to brag about it. If wromg mlre dumb fucking iowa jokes from you dumb fucks

I wouldn't joke about IOWA. Did you see the kid that got run over by a train and walked away with a scratch? He is from IOWA. And I am not dumb...I like to think more of the intellectually challenged variety.

[Grizalltheway]

It is ok. Oil is good for the rivers...right CLENZ?

I have no opinion on this. If I were to share my opinion, like I did last year I would be ridiculed. If im correct like I was with th je gulf it will be too far away to brag about it. If wromg mlre dumb fucking iowa jokes from you dumb fucks

Holy shit, was that supposed to be English?

[grizzaholic]

I have no opinion on this. If I were to share my opinion, like I did last year I would be ridiculed. If im correct like I was with th je gulf it will be too far away to brag about it. If wromg mlre dumb fucking iowa jokes from you dumb fucks

Holy shit, was that supposed to be English?

Russian Vodka.

[clenz]

I have no opinion on this. If I were to share my opinion, like I did last year I would be ridiculed. If im correct like I was with th je gulf it will be too far away to brag about it. If wromg mlre dumb fucking iowa jokes from you dumb fucks

Holy shit, was that supposed to be English?

Um...kinda. Typing on my phone - after drinking - is not good.

[Grizalltheway]

Holy shit, was that supposed to be English?

Um...kinda. Typing on my phone - after drinking - is not good.

It's all good...as long as you're finally drinking, I'll let it slide.

[Wedgebuster]

That's good old Silvertip Basin oil, saturated in H2S, and stinky as hell. What a mess, and too bad it had to be piped across all those badlands just to spill out right under the Yellowstone River.

Damn, the price of progress..

[93henfan]

That's good old Silvertip Basin oil, saturated in H2S, and stinky as hell. What a mess, and too bad it had to be piped across all those badlands just to spill out right under the Yellowstone River.

Damn, the price of progress..

Spoiler: show

Drill

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baby,

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drill!

Spoiler: show

[houndawg]

Nobody harmed but some fish and a couple of ranchers, Montanans will understand.

[JohnStOnge]

It is ok. Oil is good for the rivers...right CLENZ?

I wouldn't say "good" for the rivers but my bet would be the significance of the impact of this thing will be exaggerated. In my experience that's pretty much always the case.

Plus, as always, you have to look at postives and negatives with oil. Do you honestly think the life of the "typical" American would be better on balance right now if crude oil didn't exist and/or nobody was finding it, getting it, transporting it, and refining it? Plus there's all the plastics and such made out of it. If you could clap your hands and everything made from crude oil would suddenly disappear the life of the "typical" American would completely suck. Or at least that's how the "typical" American who has become accustomed to all of the benefits offered by crude oil products would perceive the change.

[houndawg]

Blue = USA

Red = Dumbfvckistan

Would it upset you if those shaded in red (clearing throat) Confederated together?

I'd wish them well and be happy to see them start paying their own way instead of sucking off the Federal tit.

[JohnStOnge]

I'd wish them well and be happy to see them start paying their own way instead of sucking off the Federal tit.

They'd be fine. First of all, they probably would be much more willing to cut social programs, etc., than the United States with those Blue states would be. Secondly, they'd have the overwhelming preponderance of the mineral wealth and agricultural capacity of the current United States. And they'd be free to exploit it without the drag inflicted by those Blue states.

Assuming that the new Confederacy would control the territorial seas adjacent to them as well as lands, they'd get all the revenue generated by mineral exploration and production fees and taxes such as those generated by offshore oil exploration. And they'd facilitate a lot more of it.

It'd be interesting to go back and see how many Democratic Presidential candidates won the majority of the electoral votes in that Red zone since the start of the 19th Century. Without looking I'd say it could be zero. Don't know about FDR. What a far different and better place it would be!

[Baldy]

I'd wish them well and be happy to see them start paying their own way instead of sucking off the Federal tit.

They'd be fine. First of all, they probably would be much more willing to cut social programs, etc., than the United States with those Blue states would be. Secondly, they'd have the overwhelming preponderance of the mineral wealth and agricultural capacity of the current United States. And they'd be free to exploit it without the drag inflicted by those Blue states.

Assuming that the new Confederacy would control the territorial seas adjacent to them as well as lands, they'd get all the revenue generated by mineral exploration and production fees and taxes such as those generated by offshore oil exploration. And they'd facilitate a lot more of it.

It'd be interesting to go back and see how many Democratic Presidential candidates won the majority of the electoral votes in that Red zone since the start of the 19th Century. Without looking I'd say it could be zero. Don't know about FDR. What a far different and better place it would be!

Not to mention that the losers living in the United Socialist States of America would be jumping the borders dying to get out of that shithole.

[93henfan]

Not to mention that the losers living in the United Socialist States of America would be jumping the borders dying to get out of that shithole.

Not bandl! He's looking at moving from the confederacy to N'Yawk!

[houndawg]

I'd wish them well and be happy to see them start paying their own way instead of sucking off the Federal tit.

They'd be fine. First of all, they probably would be much more willing to cut social programs, etc., than the United States with those Blue states would be. Secondly, they'd have the overwhelming preponderance of the mineral wealth and agricultural capacity of the current United States. And they'd be free to exploit it without the drag inflicted by those Blue states.

Assuming that the new Confederacy would control the territorial seas adjacent to them as well as lands, they'd get all the revenue generated by mineral exploration and production fees and taxes such as those generated by offshore oil exploration. And they'd facilitate a lot more of it.

It'd be interesting to go back and see how many Democratic Presidential candidates won the majority of the electoral votes in that Red zone since the start of the 19th Century. Without looking I'd say it could be zero. Don't know about FDR. What a far different and better place it would be!

At the start of the 19th century a very large part of the red zone wasn't part of the US, John.

[BlueHen86]

I'd wish them well and be happy to see them start paying their own way instead of sucking off the Federal tit.

They'd be fine. First of all, they probably would be much more willing to cut social programs, etc., than the United States with those Blue states would be. Secondly, they'd have the overwhelming preponderance of the mineral wealth and agricultural capacity of the current United States. And they'd be free to exploit it without the drag inflicted by those Blue states.

Assuming that the new Confederacy would control the territorial seas adjacent to them as well as lands, they'd get all the revenue generated by mineral exploration and production fees and taxes such as those generated by offshore oil exploration. And they'd facilitate a lot more of it.

It'd be interesting to go back and see how many Democratic Presidential candidates won the majority of the electoral votes in that Red zone since the start of the 19th Century. Without looking I'd say it could be zero. Don't know about FDR. What a far different and better place it would be!

Yeah, because the country always does better when a Republican is in the White House. We should just go to a one party system, it worked really well for Nazi Germany.