The pipeline runs over 1100 miles from the Bakken fields in North Dakota, through South Dakota, into Iowa, and ending in Illinois. It crosses sacred burial grounds on and off the reservation, and it undermines the Missouri River, our main supply of drinking water. The 30 inch diameter pipeline would transport anywhere from 470,000 to nearly 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day. As with any pipeline, there is the chance that it could leak, and any leak could have disastrous consequences on the ecosystem of, and the drinking water we get from, the Missouri River.
