Thursday, February 9, 2017

Construction resumes on Dakota pipeline despite tribe's challenge

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Construction resumes on Dakota pipeline despite tribe's challenge

Police vehicles idle on the outskirts of the opposition camp against the Dakota Access oil pipeline near Cannon BallBy Terray Sylvester and Liz Hampton CANNON BALL, N.D./HOUSTON (Reuters) - The company building an oil pipeline that has fueled sustained public protests said on Thursday it has started drilling under a North Dakota lake despite a last-ditch legal challenge from a Native American tribe leading the opposition. Energy Transfer Partners LP is building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to move crude from the Northern Plains to the Midwest and then on to the Gulf of Mexico, now saying it could be operational by early May. The project had been put on hold under the administration of former Democratic President Barack Obama, but new President Donald Trump, a Republican, helped put it back on track. The federal government this week cleared way for the project to resume, leading the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to file a court challenge on Thursday seeking a temporary restraining order to halt construction and drilling for the pipeline.


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