(Source: Forbes.com, July 19, 2017)
NEW YORK — After three years of planning, nearly $4 billion in capital investment and a year of legal disputes and protests, the Dakota Access Pipeline began transporting crude oil from the Bakken Shale region of North Dakota to the Gulf Coast last month. The move came just two months after President Trump issued the permits for the even-more-contested Keystone XL pipeline, which, if completed, would link the Canadian tar sands to U.S. consumption and export markets.
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