WDRB | Army will deny easement, halting work on Dakota Access Pipeline Washington Post The steel pipeline, developed and majority owned by Energy Transfer Partners, would connect the Bakken and Three Forks oil production areas in North Dakota to an existing crude oil terminal and pipeline terminus in Illinois. At 30 inches in diameter ... Federal government blocks Dakota Access oil pipeline route Quotes From Some Leading Voices in the Oil Pipeline Dispute Army Corps of Engineers blocks route of Dakota Access oil pipeline |