Calling All Faux Environmentalists: A Bakken Story

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Later, 12:03 pm est: someone just pointed out that this 60-football-field-long waste pit could be a landing site for migratory birds. Two comments: this is a solid waste landfill so this won't be a problem for birds, but if I'm wrong, the promoter should erect one wind turbine and call it a wind farm: wind farms have 100% immunity when slicing and dicing migratory birds. For oil companies, one dead duck is a criminal act. Daffy.

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Link to The Dickinson Press.

Billings County could be home to an oil field special waste landfill site that could house a waste pit the equivalent size of about 60 football fields by spring.

The 145-acre landfill site, which would be located north of Fairfield, would be one of a handful of oil field special waste sites in North Dakota, though more are in the planning stages.

Billings County officials approved plans for the landfill site, contingent upon North Dakota Department of Heath clearance, last year. A public hearing is tentatively scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at the Medora Community Center.

If there is not “sufficient public interest” in having a hearing brought forth by Friday, however, a hearing will not be conducted, according to a public notice.

“As of right now, we haven’t had anybody come forward with any concerns,” DH Division of Waste Management director Scott Radig said. “If there is no hearing, people can also send in written comments on the proposal until Jan. 26.”

Something tells me no one knew about it until now. Calling for all faux environmentalists to show up. See flash mob. Now. Beforeitstoolate.

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Speaking of faux environmentalists, why does this story not surprise me. The faux-environmentalist-in-chief "Cash for Clunkers" program actually harmed the environment. And so it goes.