WASHINGTON – An Environmental Impact Study (EIS) was released Friday morning by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“This announcement of the Dakota Access Pipeline’s final Environmental Impact Statement has been nearly a decade in the making, for one EIS over a couple hundred yards,” Senator Kevin Cramer said. “The Dakota Access Pipeline has already been safely operating for over eight years, which we all know in North Dakota. It moves millions of barrels of oil every single week, which just proves that an EIS is nothing more than a very expensive formality.”
The 464-page document was required by a U.S. District Court Judge because the ‘pipeline’s effects on the quality of the human environment are likely to be highly controversial,’ according to the abstract available with the statement.
