The Hatfield - McCoy Feud Update -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Remember the Hatfield and McCoy feud story I posted the other day?

Here's an update in the Minneapolis-St Paul StarTribune.

A bottleneck at a large oil terminal in northwestern Minnesota is keeping North Dakota oil from being piped cheaply to market.

The problem has provoked a legal feud between two pipeline companies that serve the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota.

High Prairie Pipeline, which operates about 250 miles of pipeline in the southwest part of North Dakota, has proposed building a $650 million pipeline 450 miles across that state to deliver oil from the Bakken region to a terminal at Clearbrook, Minn., 90 miles east of Grand Forks, N.D.

But the company says the project is stalled, and may be canceled, because Enbridge Energy, the Canadian company that owns the terminal and operates more than 8,000 miles of oil pipelines in Canada, North Dakota, Minnesota and other states, won't allow it to connect to the Clearbrook terminal.