Maybe the Standing Rock water protectors had a point after all.
A North Dakota pipeline carrying crude oil dumped 176,000 gallons of it into a creek, in an accident whose cause is currently unknown. The spill was about 150 miles from Cannon Ball, where water protectors have been telling people for months that oil pipelines are dangerous.
The Associated Press reports that somehow electronic monitoring equipment didn’t detect the December 5 spill from the Belle Fourche Pipeline into the Ash Coulee Creek.