The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission earlier this week approved a construction permit for Energy Transfer Partners’ $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline project. Via the Associated Press, the project still needs approval from regulators in the other three states the pipeline will cross — North Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.
The 1,130-mile pipeline will deliver a minimum of 450,000 barrels of Bakken crude from North Dakota to a pipeline in Illinois that will allow access to markets in the Midwest and Gulf Coast regions. Construction of the first leg of the pipeline could begin early next year.
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