Protests disrupt pipelines across the West

The fight over transporting crude oil has spread across the West, with protesters disrupting pipelines on the U.S.-Canada border.
Dozens have been arrested since Monday.
The unrest, in communities from Minnesota to Washington state, is connected in each case to the ongoing battle over an oil pipeline under construction in North Dakota.
Since it was approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the summer, more than a thousand people have protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline — s