Feds Say Its Too Dangerous To Share Dakota Access Oil Spill Report
Source: Huffington Post
04/26/2017 09:21 pm ET
The Army Corps claims the information could endanger peoples lives if misused.
By Michael McLaughlin
A federal agency wont release a study about the potential effects of a Dakota Access Pipeline oil spill because it claims information in the report could put lives at risk.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made the claim while rejecting a Freedom of Information Act request from MuckRock, a journalism website that collects and publishes government documents.
MuckRocks co-founder Michael Morisy had requested in March a copy of an Army Corps environmental assessment that looked at the possible impact of a pipeline leak on Lake Oahe in North Dakota.
The referenced document contains information related to sensitive infrastructure that if misused could endanger peoples lives and property, said Army Corps lawyer Damon Roberts in a denial letter that MuckRock published Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dakota-access-oil-spill-report-withheld_us_5901297ee4b0026db1ddfd08?section=us_politics
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)burrowowl
(17,644 posts)Ahpook
(2,750 posts)They either think this country as a whole is stupid enough to believe their bullshit, or they just don't care. I hope I'm wrong on the first, the second freaks me out.
Fucking ghouls have families, friends or any number of people that are affected by their greed.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)I'm glad you can think for us lil'uns so we don't have to worry our lil heads about the big bad oil.
On second thought... go to hell.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Excuse me dudes, the information could cost lives, but no worries about the actual lives affected by a potential spill.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Orange Dung Truck being President gives offices the go ahead to hide stuff.
Luka Boyd
(49 posts)And release the rest. Just take out sections that supposedly contain infrastructure information.
JudyM
(29,265 posts)without showing locations of vulnerabilities.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)should be driven out of their jobs and shunned
crosinski
(412 posts)and property of a Dakota Access Pipeline leak because it contains info that might let some dastardly group cause a leak that would endanger peoples lives and property. Yup.
christx30
(6,241 posts)there's no way in hell anyone would let us build.
dhill926
(16,351 posts)riversedge
(70,285 posts)mpcamb
(2,875 posts)We're all adults in the room so let's hear it, Government.
We're of age, we can take it.
(There couldn't be a more shallow excuse than this... that the truth about how our a very public issue about how our government works is to fragile for us to hear.)