Dakota Access Pipeline complete, readying for operations
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2017/04/04/dakota-access-pipeline-complete-readying-for-operations/Energy Transfer Partners has finished construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a spokeswoman said late Monday, and is now filling the line with crude to prepare it for service.
Dakota Access was the focus of heated protests and sometimes violent clashes with authorities for months last year. Environmentalists saw it as a symbol of global warming and the proliferation of fossil fuel use. The Standing Rock Sioux, who tapped the Missouri River for tribal water, argued that the pipeline’s river crossing threatened the tribe’s main water source, and also traversed sacred burial grounds....
...The 1,200-mile pipeline stretches from Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to Patoka, Ill. Energy Transfer Partners expects it to take a few more weeks to fill the line with oil. Then the company will fill the next line in the system, the $1-billion, 750-mile Energy Transfer Crude Oil project, which runs from Patoka to refineries in Nederland, Texas....
