> North Dakota officials estimate more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from the Belle Fourche Pipeline into the Ash Coulee Creek.

> Since 2006, [operators Wyoming-based True Cos.] have reported 36 spills totaling 320,000 gallons of petroleum products...

According to this article's cited numbers, this single spill is larger than all of the previous decade's 35 reported spills ... COMBINED.

These protests could not be more timely. I can only imagine how many spilled gallons have gone unreported: this spill was discovered by a landowner, not the intended automated monitoring equipment.