All life on this planet depends on clean water.
On December 4, Water Protectors at Standing Rock, ND, celebrated news that the Army Corps of Engineers denied the permit to drill the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) beneath the Missouri River. Soon after, Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation behind construction of DAPL, officially announced it expects to complete pipeline construction under Lake Oahe.
While the oil industry insists that pipelines are safe, between 2010 and 2015 over 3,300 incidents of over 7 million gallons of crude oil and liquefied natural gas leaks or ruptures have occurred on U.S. pipelines, leaving 80 people dead and 389 injured.