In July of 2016, the United States Army Corps of Engineers approved an oil pipeline construction project to transport crude oil via 30-inch-diameter pipes 90 feet below private lands and federal waterways.  Dubbed the Dakota Access Pipeline, it originates from the fossil fuel-abundant Bakken shale formation in North Dakota.  The DAPL is one of hundreds of underground pipelines safely and unobtrusively providing a service all across the continental USA.  It marks an investment and upgrade in infrastructure, as it runs parallel to the Northern Border Pipeline, which set the framework followed by the DAPL, when NPB commenced operations in 1982. While delayed by destructive protesters encouraged by an unethical executive intervention over judicial authority from President Obama, the pipeline is mostly complete.  Its route runs 1,172 miles from North Dakota to southern Illinois.  The benefits of a pipeline are easy to understand,  representing economic...(Read Full Article)