CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota
where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.
The drilling work is just to the north of a protest camp on federal land
where pipeline opponents had gathered since August.
Not exact matches
Democrat Assemblyman James Skoufis says
opponents were to be taken from Woodbury Town Hall to the Woodbury border with the Village of Kiryas Joel,
where a
pipeline project is underway to connect the village to a backup well in the Town of Cornwall, as well to the primary water source, the Catskill Aqueduct in New Windsor.
Opponents say the proposed $ 5.4 billion
pipeline would be a catalyst to unlocking oil sands development in Alberta, Canada,
where a dense, sticky hydrocarbon called bitumen is harvested by strip - mining and energy - intense steam - based techniques.