I’m all for energy self-sufficiency, but I wish they wouldn’t be running this thing through Tornado Alley. Even a smaller tornado could cause millions of dollars in damage to this pipeline. There are far fewer tornadoes just west of these states, where the pipeline could go with very little risk of being damaged by a twister.
That’s my worry as well, but the people who actually worked on and planned the pipe that I talked to said that after some titanic scale meetings and research the path they chose was the absolute minimum headache in terms of legal battles, land rights, etc. So if this was the EASY way I can only imagine what was the HARD way.