Too few pipelines moving crude to market is the biggest threat to wildlife in western North Dakota’s booming oil patch at present, an industry official said Tuesday (Nov. 27). About half of North Dakota’s record oil production is being shipped by rail and truck because of lack of pipeline infrastructure. Obtaining easements from landowners, acquiring permits and building a sufficient pipeline network “is a huge issue to the state of North Dakota and a huge issue to wildlife,” said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council. But a spokesman for the state chapter of The Wildlife Society said after the meeting that oil development in general is damaging wildlife and its habitat.
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