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Oil company withdraws application for New Mexico pipeline - Yea! No Pinyon Pipeline!!
I'm sure Standing Rock figured in here somewhat as tribes said they would unite to block this pipeline too. Beautiful Chaco Canyon is safe for now.
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management says an oil company with plans to build a pipeline in New Mexico capable of moving 50,000 barrels of crude oil a day has withdrawn its application for the project.
Saddle Butte San Juan, LLC, sent a letter to the agency saying that market conditions led to the decision to withdraw the right of way application for the Pinon pipeline system.
The project would have been be made up of smaller pipelines that would gather oil at well pads and other points. A larger pipeline would have moved the oil south to a distribution center near Interstate 40 in western New Mexico.
Environmentalists had voiced concerned that the pipeline would open the door to an exponential increase in production in the San Juan Basin.
Saddle Butte San Juan, LLC, sent a letter to the agency saying that market conditions led to the decision to withdraw the right of way application for the Pinon pipeline system.
The project would have been be made up of smaller pipelines that would gather oil at well pads and other points. A larger pipeline would have moved the oil south to a distribution center near Interstate 40 in western New Mexico.
Environmentalists had voiced concerned that the pipeline would open the door to an exponential increase in production in the San Juan Basin.
http://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Oil-company-withdraws-application-for-New-Mexico-10801996.php