Glendiving Argument Essay

My family and I have been living in Glendive, Montana from last 10 years. Glendive town is the ranching and agricultural hub of eastern Montana, but my city has now become a radioactive waste disposal site for North Dakota. In order to extract oil and gases, companies have to drill the earth. Along with Oil and gas, they also get unwanted material, such as radioactive sludge, water, rocks, etc. All the extra material is something they did not drill for and it is something that is hard to get rid of as well. It can’t be buried back on the site, nor they are allowed to dispose it anywhere else in North Dakota.
When companies started getting oil from the Bakken, North Dakota officials made a policy which did not allow the companies to dispose the quickly piling up waste. This left the companies desperate and in search of other disposal options. Some of them started exporting it out of the country through illegal means, while others pay hefty amounts to ship it some other state. It did not take them long to come up with the idea of disposal site in Montana. A waste facility was built just over the border to accommodate these
The oil facilities of North Dakota have been trucking out their waste to Glendive from last four years. North Dakota laws about oil waste dumping are not same anymore. Since the dumping started, the laws have changed. Oil waste facilities are permitted and legal in North Dakota, but still nobody has built any facility and the waste still ends up in Glendive. If this is going to keep happening, at least we should have some rules on the books for it. All Glendive have is some guidelines and rules that can’t even be enforced. To protect our people, our town, our families and our coming generations, we need something tangible to deal with this issue. For a person who has been living in this town for ten years, I consider the dumping of oil waste to be a colossal damage to our land and