Giving Compass' Take:

• Phil McKenna at Inside Climate News writes about the Keystone Pipeline spill that was reported just hours after a key environmental assessment hearing on plans for another controversial pipeline, Keystone XL.

• What are the drinking water infrastructure needs in your region? 

• Here's another article on the Keystone Pipeline.

The Keystone Pipeline spilled as much as 383,000 gallons of crude oil into rural wetlands in North Dakota this week before it was shut down, making it one of the largest oil spills in the country in the past decade, state officials confirmed on Thursday.

The spill had been reported just hours after an environmental assessment hearing for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a separate crude oil pipeline being built by the same company—TC Energy, formerly TransCanada.

"When we are talking about what could happen or the risk that is posed by oil spills, we have yet another illustration here in North Dakota about what can happen," said Catherine Collentine, associate director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Dirty Fuels Initiative. "It's something that we need to be looking very closely at given the number of water crossings and the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline."

Read the full article about the Keystone Pipeline spills by Phil McKenna at Inside Climate News.