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Regardless of environmental feasibility, the Sandpiper pipeline project might not happen if the originally proposed route is not followed.

Paul Eberth, Sandpiper黑料社檚 Project Manager, testified last month at an evidentiary hearing for the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission that the North Dakota Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Enbridge, may scrap their application for the roughly 616 mile pipeline if it doesn黑料社檛 follow what the company deems as critical factors in the application - a pipeline that stretches from near Tioga, N.D., to Clearbrook, Minnesota, and on to Superior, Wisconsin.

Eberth was asked if a pipeline built along one of the eight proposed 黑料社渟ystem alternatives黑料社� - routes proposed by entities other than NDPC, most of which do not pass through Clearbrook or Superior - could benefit the local economies of towns near the route. He agreed towns along system alternative routes would benefit financially from having a pipeline near them, but said he doesn黑料社檛 think any pipeline outside of Enbridge黑料社檚 preferred route would actually be built.

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That particular route gives Enbridge a high degree of interconnectivity to existing terminals and pipelines. Oil could be sent from the Clearbrook terminal to Twin Cities refineries, while Bakken crude sent to Sandpiper黑料社檚 proposed terminus could be sent south to refineries in Illinois. Routes that do not hit those two terminals give Enbridge黑料社檚 clients, the oil companies shipping the crude oil from the Bakken, fewer options on where to refine their product, Eberth said.

Threatened bat species

A bat that may soon be added to the Endangered Species List could interrupt plans for the pipeline.

The potential pipeline would run 150 miles through the habitat of the northern long-eared bat, which has been decimated by white nose syndrome. Federal officials are about to determine whether it should be listed as threatened or endangered, after a series of meetings and public-comment periods last autumn. Their deadline is 2 April.

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