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Man Guilty of Shooting Pipeline, Causing Spill

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From Times Wire Reports

A jury convicted a man of shooting a hole in the trans-Alaska pipeline, leaking more than 285,000 gallons of oil into the wilderness.

Jurors agreed that a drunk Daniel Lewis was responsible for last year’s spill, which was the pipeline’s second-largest and has cost more than $13 million to clean up. Lewis, 38, could be sentenced to up to 22 years in prison.

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