“These kinds of spills do occur,” Rebecca Craven, program director at the Pipeline Safety Trust, told NBC News. “Sometimes they’re contained on company property, and sometimes they do more damage as they escape off company property.”
The public often does not know about those types of leaks because of their size. Companies do not have to report oil pipeline leaks to the federal government unless they’re over five barrels, which is 210 gallons of oil, and if they clean them up quickly.
“The Dakota Access pipeline has not yet started shipping the proposed half million barrels of oil per day and we are already seeing confirmed reports of oil spills from the pipeline. This is what we have said all along: oil pipelines leak and spill. Our lawsuit challenging this dangerous project is ongoing and it’s more important than ever for the court to step in and halt additional accidents before they happen – not just for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and our resources but for the 17 million people whose drinking water is at risk.”
Today Mike Fasig, Izzy Hernandez and BJ Nastacio will be heading to their preliminary court date for Class C Felony Charges. Kyle Thompson has not been charged. Prayers up, tobacco down.
Indigenous evidence video 1 of many to come from Digital Smoke Signals.
Filmed through Indigenous Eyes as a visual legal narrative, documenting on “Broken treaty lands” violations, county jurisdiction violations and arrest by federal officers.
Whenever I have spoken about seeing an airplane spraying over Oceti Sakowin Camp, I was admonished, called an “alarmist”.
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