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headquarters in new york, this is the cbs evening news with katie couric. couric: good evening, everyone. it s hard to believe but next week is the anniversary of the b.p. oil disaster. despite that huge wake-up call for the industry and the federal government, spills, leaks, and explosions are still happening virtually everyday. a six-month investigation by cbs news found that spills of crude oil and toxic chemicals last year alone were three times the amount of the exxon valdez spill. here s our chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian. reporter: a cbs news investigation has found that dangerous spills and leaks by the u.s. oil and gas industry are happening all the time all across the country. everyday there s numerous releases happening throughout just this country. sometimes every couple of hours there is a new incident. reporter: truman burnett says his dream home in rural pennsylvania was destroyed by a spill at a nearby gas well, killing everythin
New-yorkUnited-statesMoscowMoskvaRussiaLouisianaCanadaJapanTokyoFloridaBostonMassachusetts reporter: they re all dead? yes. reporter: and we ve learned no one in the government knows just how many industry incidents there are. if you don t even know how many releases are occurring, if you don t even know what the overall consequences are, you can not answer the question with whether or not we are safe or not. reporter: so we collected reported incidents at wells and pipelines from three federal agencies and 23 of the 33 oil and gas producing states and here s what we found for just 2010. not counting the b.p. disaster, at least 6,500 spills, leaks, fires, or explosions nationwide. that s 18 a day. overall, at least 34 million gallons of crude oil and other potentially toxic chemicals spilled. that s trip it will size of the 1989 exxon valdez spill. and while exactly how much was cleaned up isn t known, the impact certainly is. poisoned drinking water. holy cow! reporter: dead wildlife, destroyed land, illness, injury, people being forced from their
New-yorkUnited-statesMoscowMoskvaRussiaLouisianaCanadaJapanTokyoFloridaBostonMassachusetts headquarters in new york, this is the cbs evening news with katie couric. couric: good evening, everyone. it s hard to believe but next week is the anniversary of the b.p. oil disaster. despite that huge wakeup call for the industry and the federal government, spills, leaks, and explosions are still happening virtually everyday. a six-month investigation by cbs news found that spills of crude oil and toxic chemicals last year alone were three times the amount of the exxon valdez spill. here s our chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian. reporter: a cbs news investigation has found that dangerous spills and leaks by the u.s. oil and gas industry are happening all the time all across the country. everyday there s numerous releases happening throughout just this country. sometimes every couple hours there s a new incident. reporter: truman burnett says his dream home in rural pennsylvania was destroyed by a spill at a nearby gas well, killing everything in
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