The Dakota Access Pipeline controversy highlights the issues of environmental justice that plague Native Americans. Although 99 percent of the pipeline had been constructed, the Standing Rock Sioux protested further construction in the vicinity of their reservation on the basis that the tribe was excluded from preapproval discussions with the Army Corps of Engineers before the necessary federal permits were issued. The pipeline is over 1,000 miles long and would be used to transport a half million barrels of oil each day past the reservation. Consider the devastating hazards posed by oil spills. During the protests, over 176,000 gallons of oil leaked from a pipeline 150 miles away, and 130,000 of those gallons spilled into a nearby creek. There have been over 3,300 incidents of oil or gas pipeline leaks and ruptures since 2010. Should the pipeline be allowed in such close proximity to the reservation? Should it be allowed given the fact that the Standing Rock Sioux tribe was excluded, in violation of the rules, from preapproval discussions?