Proposed Oil Pipeline To Cross Area Counties

A Texas company is proposing a 11-hundred mile, three-point-seven billion dollar pipeline from the Bakken/Three Forks oil production area of North Dakota to the south central Illinois city of Patoka. The proposed route would take the 30-inch pipe through parts of 12 South Dakota counties, Campbell, McPhereson, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink, Beadle, Kingsbury, Miner, Lake, McCook, Minnehaha and Lincon. A project open house was held Tuesday night in Huron. Company representatives had large books of properties along the route showing where the pipeline would lay, so landowners would get an idea of what Dakota Access, LLC was looking to do. Those representatives also answered questions of landowners and local politicians alike. The representatives were told they could not speak to the small handful of media present. A public relations staffer did attempted to set up phone interviews with project spokeswoman Vicki Anderson Grando, who could not be in Huron in person. According to a fact sheet given out to those in attendance the Dakota Access pipeline would create two to four-thousand jobs during the construction phase in South Dakota with 12 to 15 permanent jobs. Twelve-point-three million dollars in property taxes are expected from the pipeline in 2017, with an estimated 14-million dollars in sales taxes. The pipeline in South Dakota will be approximately 267 miles long with one electric pump station along the route.