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Activist gets 1-year sentence in 4-state oil pipeline protest

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An environmen­tal activist from Seattle has been sentenced to serve one year in prison for targeting an oil pipeline in North Dakota.

Michael Foster in October 2016 cut through a chain link fence and turned a shut-off valve on the Keystone Pipeline as part of a four-state protest to draw attention to climate change and support demonstrat­ions against the Dakota Access pipeline.

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