[WMarshal]

North Dakota is not going to do shit to harass the pipeline as it is crucial to their exports of shale gas. Woe to the bureaucrat that tries to grandstand. North Dakotans talk slow and are friendly people but they can be hard. If something threatens the livelihoods of North Dakota it doesn’t stay around long. During prohibition North Dakota was a wild and wooly place, a major smuggling route from Canada to the Midwest and a lot of people got shot on both sides of the law.

[hsalaw]

The three-member North Dakota Public Service Commission is looking into whether Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners removed too many trees and shrubs along the pipeline route, and whether it improperly reported the discovery of Native American artifacts. No artifacts were disturbed.

Good grief. Sounds like the North Dakota Public Service Commission ought to get a real job.