The Dakota Access Pipeline Project, is beneficial to transport crude oil over large distances where it can then be used for energy. The oil is transported underground through a series of pipes and valves. According to the firm, the pipeline will transport as much as 570,000 barrels of crude oil each day. Advocates have celebrated the thousands of construction jobs that will come from this pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline Project will carry oil extracted in North Dakota all the way to the Canadian border, 1,172 miles southeast to Illinois.
The pipeline may be a reliable source of energy, however the negative environmental impacts, not knowing if or when the pipeline will malfunction, the effects