Energy Transfer Partners announces it has enough commitments from shippers to move forward with an oil pipeline from the Bakken to Patoka, Ill.
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Treaty Alliance is “absolutely” willing to illegally block construction of any pipeline proposals that proceed, including TransCanada Corp.’s Energy East pipeline across much of Canada and Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Western Canada, he said.
A coalition of 75 USA and Canadian native groups that opposes expansion of North American oil production will join a US tribe’s fight against the Dakota Access pipeline if tensions escalate, a regional Canadian chief said on Friday.
North Dakota’s Forum News Service first reported the sale last Friday, Kallanish Energy finds.
Energy Transfer Partners, the Dallas-based company financing the $3.7 billion pipeline that would transport 470,000 barrels of oil a day across four states from North Dakota to IL, this week purchased the roughly 9,000 acre Cannon Ball ranch, according to a deed filed with the Morton County Recorder’s Office.
The land includes a plot along the pipeline route where protesters and the company have clashed in recent weeks.
In this Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, photo, volunteers toss logs at an oil pipeline protest encampment near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in southern North Dakota.
He has not publicly commented on the pipeline since the Justice Department, Interior Department and the U.S. Army made a surprise move on September 9 to temporarily block construction of the pipeline.
The company behind the Dakota Access pipeline has bought more than 6000 acres of land adjacent to the line’s route in North Dakota, parcels the Standing Rock Sioux tribe says contain historical artifacts, according to media reports on Saturday.
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Additional information, including the government’s letter to the tribes, can be found here. “[We wanted] to have an ongoing gathering place for Indigenous Peoples”.
Thousands of Native Americans, along with environmentalists, are encamped on the North Dakota prairie to demonstrate against a $3.7 billion oil pipeline they say threatens the water supply and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux.
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Grijalva said the pipeline threatened the tribe’s natural resources and said the project was part of a “long history of pushing the impacts of pollution onto the most economically and politically disadvantaged people and communities across this country”.
