Just 150 miles away from the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline protest in North Dakota, another crude oil pipeline has leaked and contaminated Ash Coulee Creek with at least 176,000 gallons of oil. The pipeline in question, the Belle Fourche Pipeline, was found to be actively leaking near the city of Belfield on December 5 by a landowner.
Belfield is just two and a half hours from Cannon Ball, the central hub of the Standing Rock protest and the disputed area of the final piece of the Dakota Access pipeline.