North Dakota seeks to step into DAPL court fight ahead of ruling on shutdown
North Dakota has previously filed briefs as a supporter of Dakota Access in the years-long court dispute, but the state s request to intervene as a defendant marks an escalation of its involvement in the case. Written By: Adam Willis | ×
The Dakota Access Pipeline in October 2016 while under construction. Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune
BISMARCK The state of North Dakota sought to intervene in the legal fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday, April 19, arguing that it can no longer trust President Joe Biden s administration to adequately defend the state s interests in the dispute over the embattled project.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 29th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 192 billion cubic feet to 2,689 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 41 billion cubic feet, or 1.5% higher than the 2,648 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 29th of last year, and 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.9% above the five-year average of 2,491 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 29th of January in recent years..the 192 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was a bit less than the average forecast of a 195 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but more than the 155 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and also more than the average withdrawal of 146 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have
DAKOTA ACCESS
Opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline, which carries oil from North Dakota to a shipping point in Illinois, want Biden‘s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to shut it down.
A federal appeals court ruled last week that the project must undergo a more thorough environmental review, known as an environmental impact statement, but it declined to shut the line down while the review is completed.
Texas-based pipeline owner Energy Transfer maintains the line is safe. But pipeline opponents say the ruling means it is operating with an invalid permit.
The Army Corps faces a Feb. 10 hearing where it must tell a federal judge how it expects to proceed without a permit granting easement for the 1,172-mile (1,886 kilometer) pipeline to cross beneath Lake Oahe, along the Missouri River. The Standing Rock Sioux, who draw water from the river, have said they fear the line will someday fail and pollute the water and land.
Buoyed by Keystone, pipeline opponents push action
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A crowd representing a majority of the remaining Dakota Access Pipeline protesters march near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in 2017. After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL’s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to carry oil from Canada to Texas, opponents of other pipelines hope the projects they’ve been fighting would be next.Mike McCleary | Bismarck Tribune (AP)
After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL’s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to carry oil from Canada to Texas, opponents of other pipelines hoped the projects they’ve been fighting would be next.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to ca