Lake Oahe is a large reservoir behind the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River; it begins in central South Dakota and continues north into North Dakota in the United States. The lake has an area of 370,000
Lake Oahe in winter, 2009
The Dakota Access Pipeline or Bakken pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long underground pipeline in the United States that has the ability to transport up to 750,000 barrels of light sweet crude oil per day. I
Lake Oahe
…the towns submerged under Lake Oahe, and the loss of their traditional ways of life. Lake Oahe became a point of contention in protests to block the Dakota Access Pipeline. The construction project has been controversial for its environmental impacts, and several Native American tribes in the Dakotas and Iowa have opposed…
President Donald Trump signing the Presidential Memoranda to advance the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. January 24th, 2017
Bakken Oil being shipped by rail in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, a few feet from the Mississippi River.
Dakota Access Pipeline being built in central Iowa
Cannonball River, North Dakota