AP Exclusive: Taxes Could Flow with Dakota Access Pipeline

[Equinox Moon]

Source: AP
March 01, 2017 02:27 PM

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 calculation shows the potential payoff for a state whose officials have supported the pipeline despite concerns from Native American tribes and other opponents who fear it could harm drinking water and sacred sites. The money the state stands to make in just one year far outstrips the $33 million in costs to police a section of the pipeline that's been the subject of intense and sometimes violent protests over the last year.

"The amount of the windfall to the state doesn't surprise me at all," said Payu Harris, an American Indian activist and pipeline opponent. "That's why the state of North Dakota expended the resources they did."

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Well... well... well... So the truth is out regarding the Republican Governor being so pro-DAPL.
It ALWAYS is about money, greed and power.

Posters Edit: "sometimes violent protests" were by the police not the water protectors.

[Lucinda]

1. Pretty much as expected. How much does a line break cause in cleanup fees Governor?

How much will be destroyed, and in how many states, if the aquifer is polluted...?

[raging moderate]

2. They'd better bank that money.

They will probably need it for various maintenance procedures, spill cleanups, and public health and safety disasters. These pipelines are not foolproof, and this petroleum product is said to be more corrosive than most. Which is why they decided not to run it through the route close to where mostly palefaces live. Plus, there is the threat to the groundwater which is scarce out that way, anyhow. I am not against all pipelines. I am against pipelines with inadequate construction for the product, run across the country haphazardly, with inadequate planning for the necessary constant guarding and checking, intended not for use in our country but for export, to line the pockets of a few greedy misers, and in violation of treaties with Native American tribes in a way that destroys the honor of the United States of America.