Why not build the Dakota Pipeline by the pipelines that are already there instead of plowing through the wilderness?
Pipelines come down to Oklahoma and Texas, into the New Orleans area refineries. The head of the operation admitted that the oil will be going to the refineries near and on the coast. So why dig up the countryside?
Just take the pipe down along the existing network. There are access points. Maps. Information. Worker stations.
What is out there in the middle of nowhere? Burial grounds of removed tribes? Hunting? Fishing? What is the real reason they want the pipeline between the two major distribution points? It would be much better for workers, maintenance, access, repairs, emergencies, wildlife, and protection of water to build it in the location of the existing network.
We've had the argument before. Just stop the pipeline and reroute it.
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