也许这一次，第三次真正发挥了北达科他州对天然气管道的需求，为该州东部提供服务。

除非发生某种形式的全球经济崩溃。

自现代巴肯早期以来，从天然气产地和加工地捕获并输送到所需地点一直是一场艰苦的战斗。该州严重依赖TC能源公司从加拿大延伸至北部边境的输气管道向北达科他州东部输送天然气。该州三大城市中的两个——阿尔伯塔省和大福克斯——很大程度上依赖于产自加拿大阿尔伯塔省的单一天然气源，该天然气源来自DT中游公司维京天然气输送管道，这是主干线的一条支线。

Maybe this time, the third time will really be the charm that carries North Dakota’s need for a natural gas pipeline to serve the eastern side of the state.

Barring some sort of global economic collapse, that is.

Since the earliest days of the modern Bakken, capturing and delivering natural gas from where it’s produced and processed to where it’s needed has been an uphill battle. The state relies heavily on TC Energy’s Northern Border Pipeline out of Canada to deliver natural gas to the eastern side of North Dakota. Two of the state’s three largest cities—Fargo and Grand Forks—wlargely depend on a single source of natural gas produced in Alberta, Canada, traveling off DT Midstream’s Viking Gas Transmission Pipeline, a lateral from the mainline.