More than 18 months ago, the Dakota Access Pipeline went into service. Many will remember the project, regrettably, for the protests and for the waste and destruction left in their wake. Yet, in the nearly two years since the circus packed up and moved on, the Dakota Access Pipeline has operated without incident.

On this episode of Plain Talk, Vicki Granado from Energy Transfer Partners (the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline) talks about that projects impacts on North Dakota’s economy, taxes, as well as its impact on national politics.

Pipelines, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, are “one of the safest and least costly ways to transport energy products” and “safely deliver trillions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of billions of ton/miles of liquid petroleum products each year.”

Energy Transfer LP is now considering expanding the capacity on the Bakken’s Dakota Access Pipeline. The company held an open season call in late 2018 to gauge the potential for adding an additional 35,000 barrels per day to the pipeline. According to the company, the interest and demand for adding even more barrels on the pipeline was “significant.”

MONTROSE — The Lee County Board of Supervisors moved closer Tuesday to settling on its budget for Fiscal Year 2020, crediting revenue generated by the Iowa Fertilizer Company and Dakota Access pipeline for keeping its finances afloat.

Following a 3 percent raise for most elected officials across the board, Buena Vista County employees received a proportionate bump in pay.

Buena Vista County Supervisors approved the Board of Compensation’s recommendation of 3 percent raises for all elected officials except for the county attorney, plus stipends for the auditor and treasurer, and longevity.

By Dr. Robert W. Chase, P.E., The Marietta Times, January 6, 2018 It has become fashionable among some environmentalists to declare that little of consequence would happen to the nation’s economy if oil and natural gas production were to be...

By Bob Adelmann, The New American, January 1, 2018 Fully operational since June, the Dakota Access Pipeline is lowering transportation costs, reducing tank car usage, reducing environmental and population risk, improving South Dakota’s financial condition, and putting the lie...

By James ‘Spider’ Marks, Major General, Ret., The Daily Caller, December 30, 2017 On the top of President Trump’s to-do list for 2018 is a plan to upgrade and expand America’s failing infrastructure. With our nation’s roads, dams and...

By Roger Larsen, The Plainsman, October 19, 2017 HURON – Dakota Access Pipeline has donated $20,000 to each of the 13 counties that it traverses as a goodwill gesture and to support emergency management agencies in South Dakota....

Minot Daily News, October 19, 2017 The spectacle of Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) protesters attacking their own protectors, attacking North Dakota civilians, damaging property and killing ranchers’ animals offered a stark contrast to how the rioters were portrayed...

Radio Iowa, October 19, 2017 The company that built the Dakota Access oil pipeline that runs diagonally across Iowa, from the northwest to the southeast, is making donations to emergency responders in every county the pipeline crosses in...

Bismarck Tribune October 17, 2017 The developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline is donating $35,000 to the North Dakota 4-H Foundation and another $35,000 to the North Dakota FFA Foundation. The contributions from Energy Transfer Partners will be used...

By Forum News Service, West Fargo Pioneer, October 17, 2017 Three press conferences were held to present the donations Tuesday, Oct. 17. The donations were “offered in goodwill by the company” and can be used to purchase new equipment,...

By Amy Sisk, Prairie Public News, October 10, 2017 The Dakota Access Pipeline is raising the price of Bakken crude and making it more competitive with other shale plays, according to North Dakota officials. For years, the state’s remote...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — There are hundreds more jobs than takers in the heart of North Dakota’s oil patch. Finding a hotel room, parking space or table at a restaurant is no longer easy. More than two years after...

May 2, 2017 Editor, The Dakota Access Pipeline protesters are finally gone. Calling themselves “water protectors,” they contaminated a thousand acres of pristine grassland (also a sensitive wildlife habitat) and left behind mountains of trash, human waste...

By Dana Larsen, April 30, 2017 A fire on a Dakota Access pipe-line site near Newell Thursday night has been ruled an arson. About $70,000 damage was done to a contractor-owned skid loader that was set on...

SEAN HACKBARTH Senior Editor, Digital Content Don’t expect the Pipeline Wars to simmer down, because some radical opponents will go to any lengths to stop them. Inside Sources reports one group of pipeline protesters is selling an...

By Jack Gerard and Terry O’Sullivan The State Department’s recent granting of a long-awaited permit for the Keystone XL pipeline affirmed what common sense and an exhaustive review process made clear long ago: Expanding energy infrastructure serves both...

By TIM KJOS from Kulm Today, The Jamestown Sun, March 29, 2017 The aftermath effects of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests are long and many and won’t be solved in short order. Points of dispute have existed since...

By Tony Clark, Real Clear Energy, March 28, 2017 In recent weeks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers handed down the final easement needed for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross Lake Oahe in my home state of...

By Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times, March 28, 2017 After nearly a year filled with protests, delays and political machinations, the Dakota Access Pipeline has finally been filled with oil. “Oil has been placed in the Dakota...

By Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, March 24, 2017 The Keystone XL pipeline, which would stretch over 1,200 miles and cost $8 billion, is a big project that has faced many hurdles. One of those was removed Friday when...

By The Washington Times, March 15, 2017 The Dakota Access Pipeline that triggered the resistance of the Indians, or Native Americans as some of them want to be called, is nearly complete and ready to take oil to...

By Chris White, Daily Caller, March 14, 2017 Federal officials carted away nearly 1,000 dumpsters of garbage from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protest campsites on government land in North Dakota. The Army Corps of Engineers completed its...

By Brooke Singman North Dakota is expected to gain $100 million or more annually in tax revenue once crude oil begins flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline, according to an Associated Press report released on Thursday. That’s...

By Paul Danish The activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline call themselves “Water Protectors,” but there’s a more evocative one-syllable Anglo-Saxonism that better describes them. Slobs. Now that the last of the Protectors have been hauled out...

By Natalia Castro The left is destroying their own causes; as they frame themselves as selfless environmentalists, following their funding shows these radicals’ true aims. Now, as North Dakota deals with the $33 million of costs associated with...

By JAMES MacPHERSON BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota stands to gain more than $110 million annually in tax revenue after oil begins coursing through the Dakota Access pipeline, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. The...

By Mike Sasser Victimization is all the rage these days around the nation. In today’s world of polarized identity politics, things like “victimhood” and “outrage” are the new “successful” or “heroic.” While that may seem a bit Orwellian,...

By Mattie Hjelseth BISMARCK, ND – A hectic week as law enforcement worked to clear the Oceti Sakowin protest camp. As officers moved in, and protesters moved out, garbage wasn’t the only thing abandoned. Two dogs and six puppies...

By Susan Shelley When does a protest go so far over the line that reasonable people should start protesting the protest? Possibly now. Wells Fargo has been targeted for destruction by people who are angry that the...

Liberal “environmentalists” and global warming fanatics have been camping along the North Dakota Access Pipeline route for months, demanding the project be shut down for the sake of preventing climate change. After numerous clashes with law enforcement and...

By Richard Kauzlarich, Opinion Contributor Last week’s House Energy and Commerce hearing on infrastructure development explored opportunities to improve America’s economic competitiveness through infrastructure. This could begin a unique opportunity to hear voices from across the political spectrum...

For the better part of last year, protesters poured into North Dakota to agitate against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Despite the fact that the company behind the project planned to use only private land and had...

President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions give fresh hope to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines. And that’s the way it should be. We applaud Mr. Trump’s executive action to ease the way for the government to...

The Land of LaDonna’s Last Stand The day after Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota issued an evacuation order for the Oceti Sakowin Camp, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) delivered a notice to LaDonna Allard (the founder and...

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By Erin Mundahl, InsideSources, February 15, 2017 Representatives from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Energy Transfer Partners, and the Laborers’ International Union met Wednesday in a congressional hearing on energy infrastructure development. Over the course of the two-hour...

House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Energy Hearing on Modernizing Energy and Electricity Delivery Systems February 15, 2017 Testimony of Joey Mahmoud On behalf of Energy Transfer Partners Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure to be here...

By Tom DiChristopher, CNBC, February 13, 2017 A U.S. District Court judge on Monday denied a request from Native Americans for a restraining order that would have temporarily halted work on the hotly contested Dakota Access Pipeline. ...

Inforum, February 13, 2017 The legal fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline river crossing near Cannon Ball, N.D., is not over, but the safe bet is that the last phase of the controversial project is a go. Two...

By Amy Dalrymple CANNON BALL, N.D. – Construction has resumed on the Dakota Access Pipeline as opponents raise new arguments in court to continue fighting the project. Energy Transfer Partners estimates it will take 60 days to...

By Scott Hennen, Minot Daily News, February 9, 2017 Throughout the protests surrounding the Dakota Access pipeline in Morton County, N.D., many people have been asking how these protesters are being funded. Anyone who takes even a moment to...

By Tom Jackman | Washington Post When top members of the National Sheriffs’ Association met with President Trump in the White House on Tuesday morning, one of their chief requests was for federal help dealing with demonstrators at the...