Drilling restarts on Dakota Access Pipeline

[thackney]

Drilling restarts on Dakota Access Pipeline
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2017/02/14/drilling-restarts-on-dakota-access-pipeline/
February 14, 2017


This aerial photo shows North Dakota Highway 1806, at left, where it crosses Cannonball River and Dakota Access pipeline protest camps on both sides of the river Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in Cannon Ball, N.D. A federal judge on Monday refused to stop construction on the last stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline, which is progressing much faster than expected. It’s the last big section of the $3.8 billion pipeline, which would carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

If activists are looking to organize again in North Dakota against work starting up on the Dakota Access Pipeline, they’ll have time:

A federal judge on Monday refused to stop construction on the last stretch of the pipeline. Drilling under Lake Oahe, meanwhile, and construction of the oil pipeline under the reservoir could take as much as two months to finish, the company said.

Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the primary owner and operator of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, started drilling immediately upon receiving permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last Wednesday, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Energy Transfer estimates it will finish the horizontal drilling within 60 days. The pipeline will run as much as 115 feet below the bottom of Lake Oahe, it said. It will take another 23 days to fill the line with crude from North Dakota’s Bakken oil field to a pipeline hub in Patoka, Ill.

North Dakota protest leaders called last week for activists to return in haste to the Standing Rock Sioux camps north of the reservation.

[MajorClay]

Awesome!   

[Bigun]

Awesome!   

Indeed!  Now let's get the other one rolling!

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Next up: eco-terrorism as protestors turn to blowing up pipelines to support claim of "how unsafe they can be".

[Smokin Joe]

Next up: eco-terrorism as protestors turn to blowing up pipelines to support claim of "how unsafe they can be".

They already broke into enclosures and shut valves on active pipelines. Operators shut the lines down in time to prevent damage. http://www.krtv.com/story/33367431/protesters-cause-temporary-shut-down-of-pipeline-in-chouteau-county

[IsailedawayfromFR]

They already broke into enclosures and shut valves on active pipelines. Operators shut the lines down in time to prevent damage. http://www.krtv.com/story/33367431/protesters-cause-temporary-shut-down-of-pipeline-in-chouteau-county

Yes, but there are 2.4 million miles of oil pipelines in this country, and they cannot all be watched.

Causing an extensive environmental problem would be their desire, and foisting onto the public images of streams running black with oil and oily birds and fish would do the job for them.

[Smokin Joe]

Yes, but there are 2.4 million miles of oil pipelines in this country, and they cannot all be watched.

Causing an extensive environmental problem would be their desire, and foisting onto the public images of streams running black with oil and oily birds and fish would do the job for them.

No, they can't. But people protesting oil transport by pipeline by trying to cause a pipeline failure just might be a bit much. Their agenda is not protecting nature, but damaging infrastructure. For a nation at war (recall, we are at war), damaging critical infrastructure has a name: sabotage. The why doesn't matter, that they did does.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Now we know why the tribe finally turned against the protesters when it became apparent they could not stop the pipeline:
Follow the money.  In other words, to hell with the theme of protecting ancestral lands or drinking water.

Standing Rock casino hopes to win back gamblers scared off by protests
Tribe says short-term loss in gaming revenue more important long-term pipe damage

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/21/standing-rock-casino-hopes-to-win-back-gamblers-sc/

[Smokin Joe]

Now we know why the tribe finally turned against the protesters when it became apparent they could not stop the pipeline:
Follow the money.  In other words, to hell with the theme of protecting ancestral lands or drinking water.

Standing Rock casino hopes to win back gamblers scared off by protests
Tribe says short-term loss in gaming revenue more important long-term pipe damage

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/21/standing-rock-casino-hopes-to-win-back-gamblers-sc/

I'll never set foot in one of their casinos. I think they ticked off a lot of local folks, they are running promotional ads on TV for the casinos touting giveaways.
I don't care, you couldn't pay me to walk in. In the long run, this will hurt the tribe more than it helped anyone except a couple of business owners.

[Suppressed]

And this...

[geronl]

Russian steel or Chinese steel?

[geronl]

For a nation at war (recall, we are at war), damaging critical infrastructure has a name: sabotage. The why doesn't matter, that they did does.

We are always at war.

[truth_seeker]

Look at political voting maps, and see the democrats own the reservation counties.

[Smokin Joe]

We are always at war.

Yes. The Korean War wound down with a cease-fire agreement. Technically, it is not over (no armistice, no treaty, no surrender). So much for "peace in our time'. IIRC, Congress hasn't declared war since WWII.

[Smokin Joe]

Russian steel or Chinese steel?

If you rush it, it comes out like Chinese. The oil patch up here pretty much learned its lesson with Chinese tubulars and drill pipe.

According to this article, http://www.valleynewslive.com/content/misc/Energy-Transfer-Partners-says-57-percent-of-DAPL-pipe-made-in-America-the-rest-in-Canada-411979195.html 57% of the pipe was made in the US (that is all that was available here), the rest was made in Canada.

[Bigun]

If you rush it, it comes out like Chinese. The oil patch up here pretty much learned its lesson with Chinese tubulars and drill pipe.

According to this article, http://www.valleynewslive.com/content/misc/Energy-Transfer-Partners-says-57-percent-of-DAPL-pipe-made-in-America-the-rest-in-Canada-411979195.html 57% of the pipe was made in the US (that is all that was available here), the rest was made in Canada.

Every wheel stop on Arzana Island is made out of Chinese drill pipe. I know this for a FACT!  Lot's of pick up truck bumpers and other misc. items as well!  Yeah! We learned the lesson!