Lake Oahe: Pipeline and Gulf Coast

lake oahe: The pipeline would run from Canada to U.S. refineries in the Gulf Coast, according to National Observer. The U.S. government needed to approve the pipeline because it crossed the border. Former President Barack Obama stopped the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in late 2015, declaring it would have undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal that was a centerpiece of his environmental legacy. Separately, late last year, the Army Corps of Engineers declined to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline under Lake Oahe, saying alternative routes needed to be considered. The pipeline is to carry North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters say the project threatens drinking water and Native American sites, though Energy Transfer Partners, the company that wants to build the pipeline, disputes that and says the pipeline will be safe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.