Sides spar in last public meeting on Keystone XL pipeline's route across Nebraska
Source: Omaha World Herald
Paul Hammel
Alexis Bonogofsky flew in overnight from Billings, Montana, to tell Nebraskans on Wednesday that oil pipelines do rupture and can harm farm and ranch operations.
Bonogofsky, a rancher and employee of the National Wildlife Federation, fought back tears as she described the rupture of an Exxon Mobil pipeline below the Yellowstone River in July of 2011 that flooded oil-contaminated water across pastures used to graze sheep and goats.
The equivalent of about 1,500 55-gallon barrels of oil were spilled, leaving her pastures a weedy mess that still haven’t fully recovered. Damage, overall, was estimated at $135 million for a 30-minute spill.
“You don’t clean up oil from moving water,” Bonogofsky said.
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