The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never

The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of (Kindle Single)

InsideClimate News won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for this four-part narrative and six follow-up reports into an oil spill most Americans have never heard of. More than 1 million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, triggering the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history -- more than 3/4 of a billion dollars -- and after almost two years the cleanup still isnâ€™t finished. Why not? Because the underground pipeline that ruptured was carrying diluted bitumen, or dilbit, the dirtiest, stickiest oil used today. Itâ€™s the same kind of oil that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline could someday carry across the nationâ€™s largest drinking water aquifer. Written as a narrative, this page-turner takes an inside look at what happened to two families, a community, unprepared agencies and an inept company during an environmental disaster involving a new kind of oil few people know much about.
Country USA
Manufacturer InsideClimate News
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-06-24
Format Kindle eBook

The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of (Kindle Single)