Salt Water Spills Becoming An Issue In The Bakken

The Crude Life

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Karolin Jappe, McKenzie County Emergency Manager joins the Saturday Morning Storytellers recording in at the Little Missouri Inn and Suites Watford City.

The interview covers a wide array of topics from salt water spills to the number of donations oil and gas companies have given to emergency services.

Volunteer fire fighters are also discussed in detail. Host Jason Spiess describes his passion and affinity towards helping and creating awareness for America’s fire fighters, primarily because 80-90% are volunteer.

The two discuss all the sacrifices made by companies allowing their employees to volunteer as a fire fighter. Small business owners, local leaders are also part of the discussion.

Jappe also dives into why salt water spills are becoming more of an issue in the Bakken and what she believes should be done.

Today’s cancel culture and trigger happy trolls, Jappe clarifies the reality of her relationship with the oil and gas companies.

“Like I mentioned, today I have a wonderful relationship with most of the companies who are out here working. We train and exercise together. When this last incident occurred (well blow out) I actually had a few companies call me and ask if they could be of help to the company that had the well blow out. Unfortunately that company was not on that works closely with me so that was sad.”

Here is a list of energy companies who have contributed to emergency service causes in McKenzie County. According to Jappe:

DAPL – has given me two very large checks. ($20,000.00 each time.) The last check they gave to me, I asked that they just write the check directly to Grassy Butte Fire Department as this fire department has a Very Low tax base due to most of their district being Federal lands and they wanted to provide a higher level of service to their district in purchasing Extrication equipment and 16 of their firefighters took the 16 hours of training to be able to provide that service. The equipment alone was $40,000.00 so then Ovintiv kicked in another $15,000.00 and then the Fire Chief raised the rest with local companies.
Phillips 66 purchase a duo tote foam trailer for us. Since I have 10 volunteer fire departments, I just write the grants for my department and then the equipment can serve all of the departments.
Oneok and Hess have been very generous, both giving monies to my CERT team that is coming to fruition.
Many, many many oil companies and folks and local businesses gave money and other stuff when I had a F2 Tornado back in 2018. I can’t tell you how many of those companies sent money to help people get their lives back. That was tough.
In 2019 when I had a flood in E Fairview and Cartwright – again – help came in. Some of the most important help came from companies that let their employees take 8-16 hours to do community service for many of these folks.
We have an Annual Dinner each year for ALL First responders and numerous companies are Always willing to help support that.
I know I might have missed someone – especially all those who help with my annual dinner – and unfortunately this more than likely isn’t a 100% complete a complete list, but my biggest supporters are,
XTO
Ovintiv
ONEOK
Conoco Phillips
Secure Energy
API
Targa
Hess
Crestwood
Grayson Mills
Belle Fourche/Bridger Pipeline

The “Saturday Morning Storytellers” interview was done during the weekly Farmer’s Market event in Watford City. Saturday Morning Storytellers is a weekly feature available on The Crude Life.

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