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"Ethane" pipeline to be built

The Public Service Commission has okayed the North Dakota portion of an unusual pipeline project. The story from Prairie Public's Dave Thompson.

The pipeline will take a byproduct of natural gas – ethane – that’s captured at the Hess plant at Tioga to a processing facility in Alberta, owned by Nova Chemicals. It’s a 430-mile pipeline – 80 miles of which are in North Dakota.

"Nova processes the ethane and uses it for polymers and plastics," said Commissioner Kevin Cramer. "A lot of food packaging, styrofoam and things like that."

Cramer said one product in particular is plastic water bottles.

The total cost of the project is $300-million  – and the North Dakotaportion of that is $60-million. Cramer said the company wants to get started on the pipeline as soon as possible.

 

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