The amount of land impacted by an oil spill in North Dakota is almost 10 times larger than initially reported, officials say. The disclosure comes about a month after the Keystone 1 Pipeline leaked about 383,040 gallons of oil.
Source: The Keystone Pipeline oil leak is almost 10 times worse than initially thought – CNN
So I see the oil industry has learned the IT industry’s trick of initially underreporting the severity of breaches. Including the part about doing it by orders of magnitude.
Or maybe they both learned it from the government, which always over-reports economic growth, and under-reports joblessness.