With all but a couple of miles done and in the ground, they want to change the pipeline route?
They want ETP to wait even though the permits were in?
The pipeline will pass below the lake bottom, by between (depending on who is reporting it) 40 and 80 feet, again, BELOW THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE, in a hole drilled directionally for that purpose. As designed, the pipe will not come into contact with the lake water. In the event of a catastrophic failure of the Lake Oahee dam, not even erosion from the voiding lake water would cut down to the level of the pipe well below the old Missouri River bed, now flooded to form the lake.
The 'protesters' have done over two million dollars damage to equipment and facilities, and the ACOE wants to give them a couple more years? They have burned dump trucks in the middle of the road and damaged the bridge which is on a locally important highway. Costs to local and state government exceed 22 million dollars.
Most of the protesters are from elsewhere, and the tribe wants them to leave.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/22/even-the-standing-rock-tribe-is-sick-of-the-dakota-pipeline-protesters/The 'water protectors' are encamped in an area very likely to flood when the snow melts this spring, and will pollute the water with the residues of the camp, trash, and human waste.
Can someone tell me if this land is too sacred to put a pipeline under, why are these people from elsewhere being allowed to camp there?This will be the second pipeline to cross (after the Northern Border Gas Pipeline), and there is a high tension power line crossing there, too. All the various surveys were done on those projects, there was no howling about 'sacred ground' then, so why now?
Every day the project is delayed, the additional cost to ship oil to refineries runs about 2.3 million dollars--money that does not go to royalty owners, the State (in the form of taxes), to the property tax abatement fund that reduces taxes on real property (state wide, not just in the oil producing counties), or to the oil producers.
The economic impact is staggering, and the lost revenue to ETP is even greater.
Overall, aside from direct damage to equipment, facilities, infrastructure and the environment, the cost of this protest is well over $5 Million a day, and that doesn't include whatever Soros' minions are paying protesters.