Breaking news: there's been an oil spill in South Dakota, and it's all coming from TransCanada's Keystone pipeline.

The scary part is that the company had no idea about the spill until a local landowner told them about it. 

Nobody knows just how much oil is now in the environment -- but we want to find out to make sure other planned pipeline projects, like Energy East and Keystone XL, are shut down for good. 

Can you chip in so we can fly a drone over the South Dakota spill to find out how bad it is?

You better believe the TransCanada spin machine is out in force. It knows that other pipeline projects count on the reliability of its spill detection system -- the same system that failed to see this spill.

By the time you see and smell oil on the surface, it's too late. The damage is done.

We're not talking about the same kind of oil you'd use in your garage. This stuff is like trying to get peanut butter off your clothes. Except it's on EVERYTHING, and it reeks.

Not to mention how expensive oil is to clean up.

We need proof of just how bad this spill has been. We can't get people into the spill site, but we can get a specialist drone and pilot to fly over the site to document the environmental damage.

In a way, we're lucky this time -- it's in a rural area, and away from sensitive ecosystems. But we can't afford to have a "next time", so we have to act fast.

Can you donate today so we can document the latest Keystone pipeline spill?