Oil companies to tap Missouri River water!

[Bravo Zulu]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Oil companies will be able to tap more than 5 million gallons of Missouri River water daily for drilling operations under a pair of projects announced Friday by North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven.

The state and a water district in McKenzie County will share the cost of a $7 million project that will pipe about 4 million gallons of Missouri River water daily from Williston to a water depot some seven miles away, where it would be sold to oil companies.

A second project, pegged at $150,000, will tap into an existing pipeline near Dodge in Dunn County to provide up to 1.4 million gallons of water daily to the oil industry. The pipeline brings water to Dickinson from Lake Sakakawea, a 180-mile-long reservoir on the Missouri River.

Both projects could be online this summer, Hoeven said.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. That existing pipeline..taxpayers build that, ?

[madrchsod]

2. that`s not going to please the folks downriver

[vadawg]

3. how much water passes any point in a single day, i guess we need to see how much this is in relation

to the actual flow..