Oil pipeline project underway in the Southland

Enbridge Energy Co. has begun construction of the Cook County portion of an 80-mile pipeline that’s expected to transport about 570,000 barrels per day, mostly a heavy form of crude oil extracted from the tar sands in Canada and North Dakota.

Scheduled to begin operating in the fall, the nearly $500 million pipeline will link Houston-based Enbridge’s terminal in downstate Flanagan, which is between Ottawa and Bloomington, to a terminal in Griffith, Ind…Please click here to read Dennis Sullivan’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.