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Pros And Cons Of The Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict

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On the other side of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict is the company building the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, and to an extent, the Army Corps of Engineers. Seeing as Energy Transfer Partners are constructing the pipeline, they are obviously in full support of the pipeline. On the website that Energy Transfer Partners has created to provide the public with their perspective the pros and cons of constructing the pipeline, they outline many reasons as to why the pipeline should not be opposed (Dakota Access Pipeline Facts, 2017). They begin by displaying a map of the proposed pipeline that shows that the pipeline will not cross Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and in fact, it is located entirely on privately owned land except for a 1,094 ft portion that is owned by the federal government. …show more content…

Another way that Energy Transfer Partners tries to show that their pipeline is environmentally responsible is an infographic on the Dakota Access Pipeline Facts website (which they fund). The infographic shows several other pipelines that currently travel under Lake Oahe, all of which are much more shallow, and therefore less environmentally responsible, than the pipeline that Energy Transfer Partners is proposing (Dakota Access Pipeline Facts, 2017). Both the map and infographic on the Dakota Access Pipeline Facts website are an attempt to qualm people’s fears about the danger of the pipeline. Contrary to what Energy Transfer Partners claims about their reasons for constructing the pipeline, their focus is financial

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