New reports reveal that since 2012 nearly 300 oil spills have occurred in North Dakota alone without any notification to the public, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.

This fact—that on-shore oil spills occur all the time, with little notice or fanfare—has come under increased scrutiny since the disclosure last month that the government failed for weeks to report a spill of over 865,200 gallons of crude, fracked oil in Tioga, North Dakota—one of the largest on-shore oil spills in recent U.S. history. 

AP reported Friday: