At least 6500 spills, leaks, fires or explosions at wells and pipelines nationwide in 2010

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Oil & gas industry spills happen "all the time"
By Armen Keteyian

GRANVILLE SUMMIT, Penn.- A CBS News investigation has found that dangerous spills and leaks by the U.S. oil and gas industry are happening all the time across the country.

"Everyday there's numerous releases happening throughout just this country," said oil and gas safety expert Mike Sawyer. "Sometimes every couple of hours there's a new incident."

Truman Burnett says his dream home in rural Pennsylvania was destroyed by a spill at a nearby gas well that killed everything in a pond.

"The fish were dead in two weeks," Burnett said. "Two nests of wood ducks, that was my wife's favorite animal - but they're all gone now."

We've learned that no one in the government knows just how many incidents there are.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/12/eveningnews/main20053283.shtml

[madokie]

1. Not a comparison to what is going on half a world away right now though

or to me it isn't.
The fact of the matter is we'd best get off our oil, coal and NUCLEAR ways and do it pronto or we're in for a rough patch in history.

We need to start working on ways to make electricity other than like we do now.