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Andrew Maykuth reports for the Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Obama administration’s decision to block completion of the
contentious Dakota Access Pipeline has direct impact on Sunoco Logistics
Partners LP, the Newtown Square company that would operate the $3.8 billion
crude-oil pipeline.
contentious Dakota Access Pipeline has direct impact on Sunoco Logistics
Partners LP, the Newtown Square company that would operate the $3.8 billion
crude-oil pipeline.
Sunoco
Logistics and its parent company, Energy Transfer Partners LP, which are on the
hook for more than $2 billion in the project, denounced the decision by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block the pipeline from crossing the Missouri
River as a “purely political action.
Logistics and its parent company, Energy Transfer Partners LP, which are on the
hook for more than $2 billion in the project, denounced the decision by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block the pipeline from crossing the Missouri
River as a “purely political action.
“This is
nothing new from this administration, since over the last four months the
administration has demonstrated by its action and inaction that it intended to
delay a decision in this matter until President Obama is out of office,” the
companies said in a statement released late Sunday.
nothing new from this administration, since over the last four months the
administration has demonstrated by its action and inaction that it intended to
delay a decision in this matter until President Obama is out of office,” the
companies said in a statement released late Sunday.
President-elect
Donald Trump’s spokesman on Monday said the new administration will review the
permit denial after it takes office. The Corps declined to grant ETP an
easement to build under Lake Oahe, a dammed part of the Missouri river in North
Dakota. The agency said it would begin a lengthy environmental review to
determine whether to reroute the pipeline.
Donald Trump’s spokesman on Monday said the new administration will review the
permit denial after it takes office. The Corps declined to grant ETP an
easement to build under Lake Oahe, a dammed part of the Missouri river in North
Dakota. The agency said it would begin a lengthy environmental review to
determine whether to reroute the pipeline.
Trump’s
spokesman Jason Miller on Monday told reporters he pipeline “is something we
support construction of, and we will review the situation when we are in the
White House to make the appropriate determination at that time.”
spokesman Jason Miller on Monday told reporters he pipeline “is something we
support construction of, and we will review the situation when we are in the
White House to make the appropriate determination at that time.”
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