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Ooops.

What Jensen had found on Sept. 29 turned out it was one of the largest spills recorded in the state. At 20,600 barrels it was four times the size of a pipeline rupture in late March that forced the evacuation of more than 20 homes in Arkansas.
But it was 12 days after Jensen reported the spill before state officials told the public what had happened, raising questions about how North Dakota, which is in the midst of an oil boom, reports such incidents.
All that growth is great for the, but time for someone to start revisiting procedures on how to handle these inevitable accidents that will come with such rapid expansion of the industry there. The governor wasn't told until Wednesday of the event.

Tesora Logistics of San Antonio is the company responsible for the pipeline that broke.