Potentially endangered bat could change pipeline project

lacrosse tribune ^ | 1-19-15 | AP

[TurboZamboni]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A potentially endangered species of bat could become a major obstacle to the proposed Sandpiper oil pipeline in northern Minnesota. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to declare the northern long-eared bat an endangered species because the spread of the white-nosed syndrome disease has reduced its population. In that case, Enbridge could be forced to postpone its pipeline project or chose a different route. The current proposal would carry crude from the North Dakota oilfields to Superior, Wisconsin and would run through the bats' habitat. Enbridge has already taken steps to avoid disrupting that habitat. Enbridge launched a $5 million research project to locate the trees where the bats roost during the summer. After analyzing the data, the company modified the route of the pipeline in Aitkin and Carlton counties.

[TurboZamboni]

More studies needed!!

[TurboZamboni]

life imitates comedy (again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UIQivBnTA

[GraceG]

Gotta “save” the moonbat......

I thought libs beleived in survival of the fitest an’ evolution and if the bats ain’t fit and cannot adapt to their changing environment they don’t deserve to continue to exist, right?

No, we gotta have the gubermint step in an play the False God of UnIntelligent Design....

[PGR88]

The EPA wants to make humans an endangered species

[MeshugeMikey]

the white-nosed syndrome disease

ah yes ....i hear tell that the Brown Nosed Syndrome Disease is FAR more prevelant...particularly near their Capital.

[chajin]

I would gladly give up Keystone XL if they would get rid of the maple bat...

(yes, he’s kidding)

[Berlin_Freeper]

A potentially endangered species

This is getting ridiculous.

[vpintheak]

ALL Federal Departments were given orders. Find a way to stop this project. Looks like this is the current lie being tossed out there.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so....a bat that is endangered due to a fungus that has become endemic to bats all over North America is threatened by a pipeline HOW exactly???

[TurboZamboni]

If the pipleline don’t kill us the glo-bull warming climate cooling will!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Obama is determined to slow walk the pipeline until the end of his presidency.

[thackney]

The Sandpiper pipeline will be approximately 612-miles in length, 24-inches in diameter from the company’s Beaver Lodge Station south of Tioga, North Dakota to Clearbrook, Minnesota and 30-inches in diameter from Clearbrook to Superior, Wisconsin. Line 81 terminates in Clearbrook, Minnesota and Sandpiper will carry those additional volumes to Superior, Wisconsin.

The new pipeline will generally follow Enbridge’s existing pipelines and/or other infrastructure right-of-way. In Minnesota, more than 75 percent of the route follows pipelines and other infrastructure already in operation.

Enbridge will also install a new pump station and tanks for Sandpiper in Clearbrook, Minn.

Sandpiper will be a long-term, reliable transportation link from North Dakota to a variety of markets. It will transport Bakken crude to Enbridge terminals in Clearbrook and Superior. From these terminals, the crude oil can be shipped on Enbridge and other third-party pipelines to U.S. and eastern Canadian refineries.

More detailed maps available at:
http://www.enbridge.com/SandpiperProject/Maps.aspx

[Amendment10]

The states have never delegated to the federal government, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to define and protect endangered wildlife species.

[Pearls Before Swine]

How other countries must laugh at us.

We must be (or have been for a while) very rich to think we can afford such foolishness.

[DaveA37]

Here they go again, reaching and grasping at any straw the libs can find to stop the Keystone. It is time to run those people out of this country before they kill it completely. Get over it! (We don’t need anymore damn bats anyway, the libs heads are full of them, as in “batty”)

[caver]

I’m a caver as my screen name suggest. The USFWS is out for control, nothing else. They have closed caves on federal lands and then convinced the states to close caves on state lands. Organized cavers have worked hard to reopen the caves but the feds and the states won’t have it.

[DoodleDawg]

So the bats are endangered because of a disease not connected with the pipeline in any way, and are going to continue to die from it regardless of whether it’s built?

[SkyDancer]

Kill a baby, save a bat.

[Truth29]

In a dream world, the Endangered Species Act would be repealed and the EPA would be abolished.

[beelzepug]

“We don’t need anymore damn bats anyway, the libs heads are full of them, as in “batty”.

Particularly in Minnesota.