US taxpayers might be on the hook for pipeline protest costs
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March 17, 2017
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials appear poised to go after the U.S. government — and thus U.S. taxpayers — to recoup more than $38 million in state expenses related to months of protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, though a longstanding offer from the project's developer to pay up is still on the table.
One taxpayer watchdog group questions why the state isn't jumping at the offer from Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, a company worth billions of dollars.
"You take the money when you can get it," said Dustin Gawrylow, managing director of the North Dakota Watchdog Netw...
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