23-09-2016 17:37 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Sunoco, behind protested Dakota pipeline, tops U.S. crude spill charts

By Liz Hampton HOUSTON (Reuters) - Sunoco Logistics, the future operator of the oil pipeline delayed this month after Native American protests in North Dakota, spills crude more often than any of its competitors with more than 200 leaks since 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of government data. The lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sit a half mile south of the proposed route of the Dakota Access pipeline. The tribe fears the line could destroy sacred sites during construction and that
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