Executives of the railroads, which until then shipped out all Powder River Basin coal, were not enthusiastic. ETSI was a joint venture of Bechtel, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co., United Energy Resources and Atlantic Richfield.[1] Frank Odasz, who was ETSI’s chief representative and lobbyist in the Rocky Mountain region for the project, explained Burlington Northern Railroad was initially a minor investor. “I think they did it just to spy on us,” he said.[2]
http://www.wyohistory.org/essays/coal-slurry-idea-came-and-went
Look familiar????
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/606/934/441399/
A copy of law documents from litigation between ETSI and Union Pacific Railroad.
This is a link to the environmental impact study by ETSI in 1981. The coal slurry pipeline project. https://archive.org/details/finalenvironmentim01unit
What happened to ETSI? http://www.wrlj.com/about-us-2/history/
Find out here: http://www.wrlj.com/ They just transport water!
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P wants to take up what ETSI left behind; the fight to run pipelines through land that does not belong to them. http://www.energytransfer.com/ownership_overview.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline
Water is Life 