Company: Dakota Access pipeline on track, despite “threats”
BISMARCK, N.D. — The company building the Dakota Access pipeline said Monday that the project remains on track to start moving oil this week despite recent “co-ordinated physical attacks” along the line.
The brief court filing late Monday from Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners didn’t detail the attacks, but said they “pose threats to life, physical safety and the environment.”
The filing cited those threats for redacting much of the rest of the 2 1/2-page report, but ended: “These co-ordinated attacks will not stop line-fill operations. With that in mind, the company now believes that oil may flow sometime this week.”
A spokeswoman for the company declined to elaborate on the types of attacks. A spokesman for the Morton County sheriff’s office, the centre of months of sometimes violent conflicts between protesters and law enforcement, didn’t immediately respond to an email.