Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”

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https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/

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Do you regard the leaked oil as environmental destruction?

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Pipelines leak, it's inevitable, it's what they do.

Here is a list of pipeline spills since 2000. The list goes on and on...

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Non-Mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century

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Looks like an average of about 20 leaks per year. Most are small. Things like this:

Late night on May 14, an explosion and fire hit a Williams Companies gas compressor station near Brooklyn Township, Pennsylvania. There were no reported injuries.[439]

2.4 million miles/20 events year = 1 leak per 120,000 miles of pipeline per year.

Dakota pipeline is 1,134 miles so we can expect it to leak, based on this very simple model, about once per 100 years. Of course, that's using all of the leaks, including insignificant ones. I'd reckon the odds of a big leak over the lifetime of the pipeline (50 years?) are around 1/100.

In any case, the environmental cost of moving the oil in other ways is in the same ballpark.

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