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Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, shown here near its Missouri River crossing in 2016, \u201cimperils tribal welfare, and the DAPL capacity expansion will dramatically exacerbate that peril,\u201d the tribe submitted to the North Dakota Public Service Commission. (Photo by Talli Nauman)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

LINTON, N. D. \u2013 In submissions for a hearing Nov. 13, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe asked the North Dakota Public Service Commission to deny Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) operators\u2019 request to double the flow pressure in the fracked oil conduit.
\n\u201cDoubling the throughput of a pipeline that already poses a grave threat to the water the tribe drinks, the sacred sites where tribal members pray, and the hunting, fishing, and plant gathering practices that are integral to the tribe\u2019s way of life would have a profoundly adverse impact on tribal members,\u201d Standing Rock said in a brief.
\nThe pipeline company seeks permission to double its capacity to 1.1 million barrels a day by adding five 6,000-horsepower electric-motor pumps at its station five miles west of this town in Emmons County, just across the Missouri River from the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.
\n\u201cA few miles upstream from the Emmons County pump station is the DAPL crossing at
\nLake Oahe. The waters of Lake Oahe are critical to the welfare of tribal members,\u201d the tribe said. \u201cThe DAPL Oahe crossing imperils tribal welfare, and the DAPL capacity expansion will dramatically exacerbate that peril,\u201d it said.
\nApplicants, who transport oil from North Dakota\u2019s Bakken Formation to Illinois, state that the capacity expansion \u201cwill not alter the existing maximum operating pressure of the DAPL,\u201d or Dakota Access Pipeline.
\nHowever, surges, or changes in pressure, commonplace on hazardous liquid transmission lines such as this, can cause them to burst, and the company has provided no surge analysis in its application, the tribe\u2019s engineering consultant Richard Kuprewicz warned.
\nDAPL capacity expansion would result in actual flow velocities within the 30-inch mainline pipe in excess of 15 feet per second. \u201cThis is an extremely high velocity for crude oil, especially for a large diameter pipeline such as DAPL,\u201d Kuprewicz testified.
\nSuch high velocities can rapidly cause prohibited surge overpressures of more than 110 percent of maximum operating pressure within microseconds, he noted.
\nAnother tribal witness, pipeline safety expert Donald Holmstrom, pointed out that Dakota Access
\ncorporate parent, Energy Transfer LP, has the worst hazardous liquid safety record in the industry over the past 13 years.
\nIn recent months, its pipelines have caused a number of high-profile release incidents, prompting unprecedented government enforcement actions, shutdowns and remedial actions, according to Holmstrom.
\nAs of Dec. 3, 2018, DAPL had experienced 12 spills of more than 6,100 gallons of Bakken crude oil in its less than two years of operation. But that is just a small fraction of the many hazardous liquid incidents across Energy Transfer LP\u2019s pipeline portfolio, he noted.
\nAccording to a database maintained by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, from 2006 to 2018, Energy Transfer pipelines suffered 458 hazardous liquid incidents, resulting in nearly $110 million in property damage from more than 2.5 million gallons spilled, \u201cmaking Energy Transfer far and away the most hazardous pipeline operator across that 13-year period,\u201d he said.
\nThe second most hazardous pipeline operator over that period experienced 45 percent fewer liquid spills than Energy Transfer, according to his research.
\nSince DAPL went into operation in 2017, Energy Transfer LP company-wide hazardous
\nliquid spills have resulted in more than $20.5 million in property damage, prompting \u201cunprecedented regulatory enforcement action,\u201d he added.
\nIn 2017-2018, Sunoco, controlled by Energy Transfer LP, was forced to suspend pipeline operations because of environmental contamination on four separate occasions across three states, with one state regulator describing its practices as \u201cegregious and willful\u201d violations of law.
\n\u201cThe tribe respectfully submits that the commission should be alarmed that the industry\u2019s
\nmost hazardous operator is now seeking to double the already-substantial capacity of DAPL and increase the risk of spill incidents \u2013 without providing critical documents and data,\u201d Standing Rock said.
\nThroughout history and into modern times, the tribe has been forced to surrender its land and its way of life to the interests of others. The siting of DAPL, and now, the DAPL capacity expansion, threatens to write another chapter in that sorrowful history.\u201d
\nTribal Historic Preservation Officer Jon Eagle bolstered the case for nixing the project on the grounds that it increases hardship and uncertainly for all Emmons County residents but especially for the native population because of past injustices.
\n\u201cThe flooding of the (Missouri) river to create the hydroelectric dams had an adverse effect on a traditional cultural landscape that caused a deep unresolved trauma to the people who witnessed the original beauty of the river and the subsequent destruction of a way of life,\u201d Eagle said.
\n\u201cThat federal action also created a disconnect between the people of Standing Rock and their neighbors on the east side of the river. The people of Standing Rock at one time had a great relationship with their neighbors.
\n\u201cI grew up listening to stories of my dad and his brothers breaking horses for area ranchers who in turn bought them school clothes and shoes in the fall. My mother-in-law told stories of traveling to Linton to attend polka dances.
\n\u201cOur elders told stories of gatherings on the river bottom to share harvest, to exchange and trade goods with one another. Those are stories that my generation never got to experience because we were born after the flooding of the river.
\n\u201cOnce man changes the land,\u201d it is changed forever,\u201d he said. \u201cI have personally been to five countries and 48 of our states. I have seen such beauty in my lifetime that only a poet could give word to the experience. As I look around at the beauty that is the Dakotas, I think to myself, do we really want to risk this?
\n\u201cDo we really want to support the expansion of this pipeline and risk what we have left? Because the company itself isn\u2019t from here, they don\u2019t have the same connection to this land that those of us who were born and raised in the Dakotas have. They\u2019re willing to take that risk, but are we?\u201d
\nThe tribe opposed the original construction of DAPL, drawing unprecedented massive native and worldwide grassroots support. It continues to pursue that case in litigation against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Dakota Access in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

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Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, shown here near its Missouri River crossing in 2016, \u201cimperils tribal welfare, and the DAPL capacity expansion will dramatically exacerbate that peril,\u201d the tribe submitted to the North Dakota Public Service Commission. (Photo by Talli Nauman) LINTON, N. D. \u2013 In submissions for a <\/p>\n

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