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Dakota Pipeline Protest
ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE: The protest was to prevent a giant oil company from building a pipeline under a river on the reservation that was their only source of water. The oil company won. The pipeline was built. There was an alternate route the oil company could have built - but they insisted on the reservation river route.

• "The Standing Rock Sioux, other tribes, and environmental groups oppose the pipeline because of the greenhouse gas emissions from oil that it carries, and concerns that a spill would contaminate state and tribal drinking water."