https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/thomas-r-covert/Thomas R CovertHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/environmental-consequences-of-hydrocarbon-infrastructure-policy/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/environmental-consequences-of-hydrocarbon-infrastructure-policy/<p>Covert and Kellogg study policies that aim to &ldquo;keep carbon in the ground&rdquo; by blocking fossil fuel infrastructure investment, with the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as their empirical application. DAPL moves more than 500,000 barrels per day of oil from the Bakken Shale of North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast and was completed in June 2017 amid substantial opposition. The central research question is whether blocking pipeline construction actually keeps oil in the ground or merely shifts transport to alternative modes — specifically crude-by-rail — and what the net environmental and economic consequences are.</p>