August 12, 2016
KEYSTONE WAS THE UR'S STEEL TARIFFS:
The Government Quietly Just Approved This Enormous Oil Pipeline (ALEXANDER SAMMON, AUG. 12, 2016, Mother Jones)
It took seven years of protests, sit-ins, letter-writing, and, finally, a presidential review to prevent the Keystone XL oil pipeline from being built. Now, in a matter of months, America's newest mega pipeline--the Dakota Access Pipeline Project (DAPL)--has quietly received full regulatory permission to begin construction. Known also as the Bakken Pipeline, the project is slated to run 1,172 miles of 30-inch diameter pipe from North Dakota's northwest Bakken region down to a market hub outside Patoka, Illinois, where it will join extant pipelines and travel onward to refineries and markets in the Gulf and on the East Coast. If that description gives you déjà vu, it should: The Bakken Pipeline is only 7 miles shorter than Keystone's proposed length.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 12, 2016 7:49 AM