Dakota Access Pipeline
The controversy over a planned 1,100-mile pipeline, originating in North Dakota and stretching across four States to Illinois, recently came to Capitol Hill, when Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-I) attempted to add an amendment to a water projects bill to slow its development. The Dakota Access Pipeline, as it is called, would carry up to 570,000 barrels of domestically produced oil each day. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, which opposes the project, says that a spill from the pipeline near their reservation could pollute the water and that construction would destroy sacred sites and burial grounds. Dallas-based Energy…
