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The Practical Implications of Pipeline Permitting in the Aftermath of the Dakota Access Pipeline: Successful Navigation of the Strategy of Delay Employed by the Opponents to the Energy Industry (Room Conference Hall)

For those that follow the events transpiring as to the Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners ("ETP") pursued this project "playing it by the book", engaging the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe early in the project and repeatedly thereafter. Still, ETP ended up where it did not want to find itself - in litigation and on the losing end of public relations. It is important to understand the strategy of the environmental opposition. " Every piece of fossil-fuel infrastructure will have to be contested. Since the Keystone fight launched this phase of the battle, campaigners have grown adept using the courts and local government to block and slow pipelines. Every month of delay adds new costs; every layer of uncertainty makes it harder for investors to justify." This presentation discusses the emerging strategy being pursued by energy industry opponents; the need to be proactive in the public relations and a discussion of the high likelihood of future civil disobedience.