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The Bakken Pipeline is a 1,134 mile long underground oil pipeline project for crude oil from the Bakken oil fields in Northwest North Dakota, through South Dakota, Iowa and to end in Patoka, Illinois, which Dakota Access, LLC, a subsidiary of the Dallas, Texas corporation Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. is planning. The project was made public by the media in July 2014, and informational hearings for landowners took place in the four states between August 2014 and January 2015. They submitted their plan to the Iowa Utilities Board on 29 October 2014 and applied for a permit in January 2015. Dakota Access has calculated the pipeline cost at $3.7 billion, $189 million of which would be to pay landowners for the easement. ==Project description== The pipeline would run from the Northwestern North Dakota Bakken formation and Three Forks hydrofracturing sites starting in Stanley, North Dakota in a Southeastward direction to end in Patoka, Illinois. From there it could connect with a pipeline to the Gulf Coast for storage or for refinement and export, or reach East coast markets by rail. Energy Transfer owns a natural gas pipeline from Patoka south to storage terminals owned by Sunoco Logistics Partners and Houston-based Phillips 66 in Nederland, Texas, which is retrofitted to crude oil.〔 Dakota Access, LLC plans a permanent 50 foot easement and an up to 150 foot construction right of way for the pipeline. It has said the 30-inch diameter pipeline would be at least 48 inches underground from the top of the pipe or 2 feet below any drain tiles. As of 2014 it projected that the pipe will carry in excess of 450,000 barrels per day of hydrofracked crude oil "based on contractual commitments to date".〔 The company estimates the pipeline to cost $3.7 billion and to create 40 permanent jobs, besides 8,200-12,000 temporary jobs. informational meetings for landowners had been held in all counties of Iowa to explain right of way issues. The company was working on applications for a “hazardous liquid pipeline permit” with the four respective state agencies regulating utilities.〔 unlike town meetings no record of the statements or objections is taken.〔 To petition for the pipeline permit Dakota Access LLC must wait until at least 30 days after the informational meetings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bakken pipeline」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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