But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping
drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity.
Keokuk, IA — At approximately noon a water protector, Cameron Kennedy, 27, of Minneapolis locked
onto the
drilling waste vehicle Dakota Access Pipeline has been using to transport
drilling byproduct to an unlined earthen pit near the Des Moines River on Johnson Street Road in Keokuk, Iowa.