Companies Slated To Build Tar Sand Pipelines Have Spilled 63,000 Barrels Since 2010
An oil spill from the Belle Fourche Pipeline that was discovered Dec. 5, 2016 in Ash Coulee Creek, a tributary of the Little Missouri River, near Belfield, N.D. (Scott Stockdill/North Dakota Department of Health)
The companies behind four proposed pipelines that would transport oil from Canada’s tar sands have spilled 63,000 barrels of hazardous liquids – including crude oil – from their existing US pipeline network since 2010, according to government data.
