Texas-based developer Energy Transfer Partners maintains the pipeline is safe
I am thrilled to hear that the petroleum industry has finally decided to build safe pipelines. There have been a few problems in the past.
When the energy companies talk about how safe pipelines are, they compare them to transport via trucks or rail. That doesn’t mean that pipelines won’t leak. They will, and they can leak very large volumes.
If Dakota Access is too cheap to develop a spill-response plan for the point where the pipeline goes under the 4th largest water reservoir in the US, you have to wonder where else they decided to cut corners.