The Keystone Pipeline oil leak affected land about three miles from Edinburg, N.D. (Taylor DeVries/North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality) Approximately 383,000 gallons of crude oil have spilled into a North Dakota wetland this week in the latest leak from the Keystone Pipeline, further fueling long-standing opposition to plans for the pipeline network’s extension. With about half an Olympic swimming pool’s worth of oil covering roughly half an acre, the leak is among the largest in the state, said Karl Rockeman, who directs the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality’s division of water quality. But the spill does not appear to pose an immediate threat to public health, he added, as people do not live nearby and that the wetland is not a source of drinking water. For environmental groups, though, the leak was further evidence that Canada-based pipeline owner TC Energy should not be allowed to build the […]