| Bison Pipeline Meetings Scheduled in ND |
| 8/26/2009 |
| State Health Department scientist Mike Sauer says officials are working to ensure a pipeline planned in southwest North Dakota does not harm waterways, particularly the Heart and Little Missouri rivers. Sauer says the Bison Pipeline will be required to use a horizontal-directional drilling method, in which crews would bore underneath those waterways and come out the other side. TransCanada Corp.`s $600 million Bison Pipeline would start west of Gillette, Wyo., and run to southwest North Dakota where it would link up with the Northern Border Pipeline near Glen Ullin that moves gas to the Midwest. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has prepared an environmental study on the project and is seeking public comments. Meetings are planned Sept. 21 at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall in Glen Ullin and Sept. 22 at the Bowman County Fairgrounds Four Seasons Pavilion. Justin Kringstad, executive director of the North Dakota Pipeline Authority, says pipeline construction could begin at the end of next year. He says the pipeline will not handle any North Dakota gas. |
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