It's not "just" the chemical toxicity of Bakken crude oil, and the risks that represents for human health, safety, and the environment. (See the posts below, re: the resistance of indigenous environmental defenders, as at Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lands, and their supporters, against the so-called Dakota Access Pipeline.)
It's not "just" the bomb train (or bomb pipeline) potential of the volatile Bakken crude oil.
It's not even "just" the climate chaos time bomb the burning of Bakken crude oil represents.
It's also the hazardous radioactivity of Bakken, and other, oilfield wastes:
- Bismarck Tribune - State Health Council ratifies radioactive waste rules - James MacPherson
- Bismarck Tribune - In heated do-over meeting, N.D. Health Council ratifies rules for radioactive oilfield waste - Lauren Donovan
- KXMB CBS12 Bismarck/Dickinson - Protesters Continue to Fight Against Radioactive Waste Rules - Mike Chaussee
- Grand Forks Herald - Letter: North Dakota waste management meeting needs public input - Linda Weiss, Belfield, ND [Please note these news posts are from August 10, 2016]
- [And this one was posted August 8th:] INFORUM Fargo, ND - Letter: Don't store radioactive waste near farms, homes - Linda Weiss, Belfield, N.D.
- [And this one was posted August 2nd:] McKenzie County Farmer - County residents taking their concerns over radioactive waste to Bismarck - Jack Dura
- [And this one on July 19th:] KFYR-TV, ND - Dakota Resource Council, ND Energy Industry Waste Coalition, ND Health Council in court over meeting notice
- [And this July 15th:] KFYR-TV, ND - ND radioactive waste rules going to court - Anthony Humes
- [And this July 13th:] Grand Forks Herald - Environmental groups to argue radioactive waste rules passed with inadequate public notice - Lauren Donovan [Please note, this issue is in addition to the targeting of the Dakotas for "deep borehole disposal" of radioactive waste generated by the nuclear power industry!]
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