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11/17/2017 / By JD Heyes

Operator of Keystone Pipeline quietly cleaning up spill of 210,000 gallons of oil from largest-ever leak in South Dakota

As many environmentalists and local Native American tribes feared, a massive leak of some 210,000 gallons, or about 5,000 barrels, of oil has occurred along a section of the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota, making it the largest-ever spill. The company quietly announced via a November 16 tweet that it is “currently responding to an incident […]

12/16/2016 / By Vicki Batts

2013 North Dakota oil spill was the size of seven football fields

Three years ago, a farmer in North Dakota discovered one of the largest crude oil spills to ever be recorded in the state’s history. According to the farmer, Steve Jensen, he saw oil just “bubbling up out of the ground” while he was harvesting wheat. Jensen says that he smelled the oil a few days […]

12/14/2016 / By Vicki Batts

Pipeline spills thousands of gallons of crude oil into creek, just 150 miles from DAPL

A North Dakota pipeline spill has released many tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into a nearby creek, just two and a half hours away from Cannon Ball, ND, where activists have been protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline for months. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, their allies and […]

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