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    April 15, 2016
    Crews with TransCanada were still working the scene of where an oil leak was detected earlier this month along the Keystone pipeline on Friday morning, 6 miles east of Menno, south of Highway 18. (Matt Gade/Republic)
    A problem with pipelines
    A recent oil spill was the last straw for one landowner and his trust in pipeline safety in South Dakota. Mike Sibson never thought the Keystone...
    News/localApril 15, 2016 - 10:14pm
    April 13, 2016
    OPINION: When safety fears come true
    The legendary Curt Hohn, executive director of Web Rural Water system and tireless fighter for South Dakota Rural Water, would not be surprised with the news that a leak has developed in southeast South Dakota, 2 miles west of Highway 18 and 81 at Meridian Corner.
    opinion/columnsApril 13, 2016 - 10:19am
    April 7, 2016
    (Photo courtesy of TransCanada)
    TransCanada: 400 barrels of oil leaked near Freeman
    FREEMAN — Officials are estimating that 400 barrels of oil, or 16,800 gallons, were leaked out of a Keystone pipeline near Freeman. TransCanada,...
    News/localApril 7, 2016 - 2:32pm
    April 6, 2016
    'Confident they'll make it right,' landowner says
    FREEMAN — The man who owns land where an oil spill is being investigated has no qualms with TransCanada. Loren Schultz, of Freeman, is...
    News/stateApril 6, 2016 - 6:20pm
    April 5, 2016
    TransCanada workers continued excavating a section of the Keystone oil pipeline Tuesday near Freeman after oil was discovered above ground on Saturday afternoon. No cause was discovered as of Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of TransCanada spokesperson Mark Cooper)
    TransCanada: Oil spill 'small in scope'
    FREEMAN — TransCanada officials have still not found a cause behind an oil spill southwest of Freeman, but evidence suggests the incident...
    News/localApril 5, 2016 - 5:59pm
    September 27, 2015
    An aerial photo taken June 18, 2015, shows the site of the cleanup and remediation of the September 2013 Tesoro Logistics oil pipeline leak that released 20,600 barrels of oil into a wheat field near Tioga, N.D. Credit: Vern Whitten Photography
    Two years after spill, dirty pile still dwarfs clean pile
    TIOGA, N.D. – Two years after North Dakota’s largest oil pipeline spill, landowner Patty Jensen measures progress by how large the dirty...
    News/nationSeptember 27, 2015 - 11:34am
    July 2, 2015
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    BP settles U.S. oil spill claims for $18.7 billion
    The BP oil rig explosion of 2010 killed 11 workers and spewed millions of barrels of oil onto U.S. shorelines. Now, BP will pay nearly nineteen...
    News/nationJuly 2, 2015 - 1:11pm
    May 21, 2015
    An evaluation of freshly dead dolphins that beached in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama had injuries consistent with breathing and metabolizing oil. New research points to BP's 2010 oil spill. (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries photo)
    BP's spill is sending high numbers of dolphins to watery graves
    The largest oil spill in U.S. history greatly contributed to an unusually high number of bottlenose dolphins washing up dead on beaches in the...
    News/nationMay 21, 2015 - 4:27pm
    January 23, 2015
    Montana oil spill adds to fears about proposed pipeline
    SIOUX FALLS (AP) — A pipeline oil spill in Montana that contaminated a river and a city's drinking water supply is adding to fears about a proposed pipeline to carry oil from western North Dakota to a terminal in Illinois for distribution to refineries in eastern states. Many...
    News/nationJanuary 23, 2015 - 2:31pm
    March 15, 2014
    A flooded oil well near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers is pictured Friday, March 14, 2014, near Williston, N.D. (Tanner Overland, Overland Aerial Photography via Forum News Service)
    Flooded ND oil wells spill into Missouri River
    By Regina Carcia Cano SIOUX FALLS (AP) — As many as 33 barrels of oil have been contained after spilling from a well into floodwaters...
    News/stateMarch 15, 2014 - 9:26pm
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