calling i know the truth by the end of june is pretty limited right now all laws all those trade negotiations was a louis saha joining us from new york and here s some other business stories making news. while prices also fell sharply on thursday due to fears of prolonged trade tension between the u.s. and china festers fear that if you could weigh heavily on growth on global growth rather u.s. light crude fell nearly 6 percent below $58.00 per barrel. u.s. president donald trump is providing an additional $16000000000.00 in aid to farmers hurt by his trade policies to washington introduced tariffs on foreign products china and other countries responded with retaliatory tariffs focusing on u.s. exports. popstar rianna has unveiled her luxury fashion brand with new owner l v m h and paris is the latest brianna s business ventures which include
state history. 20,000 barrels of what leaked from a pipeline in his north dakota wheat fields. and while north dakota isn t the sight of the oil-related disaster, it is, in some ways, the source of it. when that massive explosion in quebec in july killed 40,000 people, that explosion was caused by the derailment of a train, carrying a load of sweet, light crude from north dakota, from the bakken shale. north dakota over the last decade or so has become a state that s increasingly dependent on one industry. there s essentially an oil gold rush happening in north dakota right now. before the boom in 2008, the state was shipping about 18,000 barrels of oil a day by rail. by 2012, it wasn t 18,000 barrels a day, it was 425,000 barrels a day. and that number rose by another third in 2013. watching the state of north dakota deal with its sudden and new and dramatically different reality has been a fascinating
the source of it. when that massive explosion in quebec in july killed 40,000 people, that explosion was caused by the derailment of a train, carrying a load of sweet, light crude from north dakota, from the bakken shale. north dakota over the last decade or so has become a state that s increasingly dependent on one industry. there s essentially an oil gold rush happening in north dakota right now. before the boom in 2008, the state was shipping about 18,000 barrels of oil a day by rail. by 2012, it wasn t 18,000 barrels a day, it was 425,000 barrels a day. and that number rose by another third in 2013. watching the state of north dakota deal with its sudden and new and dramatically different reality has been a fascinating experiment in watching the adaptability of governance. but the way that north dakota has adapted has also, sometimes, been alarming. this was the front page of the bismarck tribune newspaper
when that massive explosion in quebec in july killed 40,000 people, that explosion was caused by the derailment of a train, carrying a load of sweet, light crude from north dakota, from the bakken shale. north dakota over the last decade or so has become a state that s increasingly dependent on one industry. there s essentially an oil gold rush happening in north dakota right now. before the boom in 2008, the state was shipping about 18,000 barrels of oil a day by rail. by 2012, it wasn t 18,000 barrels a day, it was 425,000 barrels a day. and that number rose by another third in 2013. watching the state of north dakota deal with its sudden and new and dramatically different reality has been a fascinating experiment in watching the adaptability of governance. but the way that north dakota has adapted has also, sometimes, been alarming. this was the front page of the bismarck tribune newspaper today. look at that right up there at the top. ross oil pit shut down. company ordered to stop
they have a planned protest starting this saturday, calling on activists to get arrested, they point to three recent pipeline spills in montana, north dakota and michigan, they say oil sands is the most toxic form of oil on the planet because it is so labor intensive to extract, it creates more greenhouse gases and requires more blending than light crude. keystone xl pipeline, frankly, puts thousands of miles of our lands and our waters at risk from toxic spills, and frankly, the track record for transporting the fuel is abysmal. reporter: talking about that track record, transcanada in that one year in operating that pipeline to the midwest has had 14 spills, but bill, 13 of them were very small, averaging only 5-gallons, and one of them, the largest one, was 400-gallons. bill: dan springer, we ll see where it gets what gets done in the end. martha: this might be my favorite story of the day, a