The labor halls all have plenty of available, qualified people who are ready to start work on the project,” Grymala said. “The majority of workers on the project will be hired through the local union halls.
But most of the jobs already have been filled. The pipeline construction workforce is expected to expand to as many as 3,000.
of Brownsville, Wis., Precision Pipeline of Eau Claire, Wis., and U.S. From Superior, the oil could either be refined at the Murphy Oil facility or piped 450 more miles to Illinois.Ĭonstruction work is being done by Global Pipeline Partners, a partnership of Michels Corp. segment of the pipeline is part of an $8 billion expansion. That would be in addition to the 1.6 million barrels a day that the company already moves through an existing pipeline along the same route. The new pipeline will carry about 450,000 barrels of oil, or 19 million gallons, a day. The pipeline is being built along an existing Enbridge pipeline right-of-way that enters the United States near Neche, N.D., and runs through northwestern Minnesota, past Thief River Falls and Clearbrook, Minn. State Department last week approved the final permit needed for the company to begin building the pipeline between the oil tar sands region of Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wis.
They also are stringing pipe - laying pipe along the right-of-way in anticipation of being welded and placed in trenches, according to Lorraine Grymala, community affairs manager for Enbridge Energy, which is building the pipeline. Alberta Clipper Pipeline construction under way in North Dakota, MinnesotaĬonstruction of the Alberta Clipper Pipeline is beginning in northern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.Ĭrews are beginning to clear land along the right-of-way.
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