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Judi Lynn

(160,551 posts)
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 10:56 PM Apr 2017

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 people’s lives” if misused.
By Michael McLaughlin


A federal agency won’t 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. 

MuckRock’s 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 people’s 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

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Ahpook

(2,750 posts)
4. Pretty much sums it up
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 11:34 PM
Apr 2017

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.



defacto7

(13,485 posts)
2. Thank you daddy...
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 11:28 PM
Apr 2017

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.

montana_hazeleyes

(3,424 posts)
6. What the hell.
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 12:27 AM
Apr 2017

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)
7. Translation: Fuck the People
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 12:56 AM
Apr 2017

Orange Dung Truck being President gives offices the go ahead to hide stuff.

Luka Boyd

(49 posts)
8. Seems to me they could just redact the sensitive information
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 07:48 AM
Apr 2017

And release the rest. Just take out sections that supposedly contain infrastructure information.

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
9. That's right, and if pressed, likely what a court would rule. They can show extent of damage
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 09:55 AM
Apr 2017

without showing locations of vulnerabilities.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahe_Dam because a spill of toxic bitamin will devastate 5 states.
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 10:08 AM
Apr 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahe_Dam

Republicans will be responsible for that.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
11. disgusting corrupt LIARS who subvert our hard-won democracy
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 10:30 AM
Apr 2017

should be driven out of their jobs and shunned

crosinski

(411 posts)
12. Let's see now, they won't wont release a study about the potential dangerous effects to lives
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 12:01 PM
Apr 2017

and property of a Dakota Access Pipeline leak because it contains info that might let some dastardly group cause a leak that would endanger people’s lives and property. Yup.

mpcamb

(2,871 posts)
18. Freedom of Information Act? Just askin', 'cause we still a democracy, in name.
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 06:43 PM
Apr 2017

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.)

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