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The Dakota Access Pipeline is an underground pipeline that transports crude oil.

It extends 1,168 miles across North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois, crossing through communities, farms, tribal/reservation land, & wildlife.

The construction started in 2016 and since then there have been protesters against the pipeline.

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The pipeline route runs under the Standing Rock Sioux Indian reservation.

The protesters say that  the construction and size of the pipeline would put the reservation’s only supply of drinking water at risk of oil spills and contamination, the sacred lands would be disturbed, &people's private land would be tampered with.

Thousands of protesters have set up camp on land belonging to the Army Corps of Engineers at the confluence of the Missouri river in North Dakota.

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PROS:

1. The project developer says the pipeline would help the United States become less dependent on importing energy from unstable regions of the world

2. The pipeline will help the economy and create thousands of jobs

3. It will be more cost effective and more environmentally friendly

CONS:

1. It will worsen climate change by pumping thousands gallons of crude oil to market daily

2. Construction of the pipeline will/has already damaged sacred burial sites

3. The pipeline may burst and ruin the water supply at the Standing Rock Sioux and millions of people downstream

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I feel that the pipeline should not be continued and it should be canceled. It will most likely burst one day and ruin the lakes and water supply. It will also disturb the peaceful reservations that belong to the Native Americans.

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The Obama administration originally canceled the pipeline. Whilst the Trump administration has now continued construction on it.