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February 8, 2018

North Dakota: 1-Year Prison Sentence for Anti-Pipeline Activist
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In North Dakota, a court has sentenced anti-pipeline activist Michael
Foster to one year in prison, after he broke into an oil pipeline
facility and turned a manual safety valve to cut off the flow of tar
sands oil coming into the United States from Canada. Foster was one of
10 people arrested in October 2016 as part of a coordinated campaign
that saw similar actions in Minnesota, Montana and Washington state.


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