Sentences with phrase «bakken fracking fields»

At a time when the nation — and the world — has pledged to decrease climate - changing fossil fuels, the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline would transport 500,000 barrels of highly combustible crude each day nearly 1,200 miles, from the Bakken fracking fields in northwestern North Dakota through four states to southern Illinois.

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And even though drilling has dropped off sharply in the major Bakken field in North Dakota and other fracking plays, it is remarkably inexpensive to restart once prices rebound.

It's slated to go from the Bakken gas and oil fracking fields in northern North Dakota across 1,100 miles of the rest of the Dakotas and Iowa to a pipeline hub in Illinois.

The purpose of the blockade is to prevent fracking sands, known as ceramic proppants, from being shipped from the port to the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and other places.