Dakota Access Pipeline: Activists celebrate halting of Dakota pipeline

December 5: The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a major victory yesterday in its battle to block an oil pipeline being built near its reservation when the department of the army announced that it would not allow the pipeline to be drilled under a dammed section of the Missouri river. Archambault says the protest camp’s goal has been served and there’s no need for people to stay in risky winter weather.

The camp erupted in instant jubilation, with protesters cheering, crying tears of joy and beating drums.

Before they arrived, the commander of the North Dakota National Guard, Maj.

The Republican billionaire, who reportedly owns a stake in the pipeline’s operator Energy Transfer Partners, planned to meet Monday with North Dakota congressman Kevin Cramer.

Brian Mannix, research professor at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, expects the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision Sunday to be reversed – either by a court or President-elect Donald Trump when he takes office. The company continues to seek permission for the crossing from a federal judge. A decision is pending.

“The question was asked if we would consider pulling back from the Backwater Bridge”, Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney said in the Saturday release after a conversation between law enforcement and the organizers with Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, “and the answer is yes!” The pipeline has a total cost of almost $4 billion. Here’s what you need to know. The river crossing is the last major piece of the pipeline that remains unfinished.

Archambault said the protest helped keep the developer from trying to build under Lake Oahe.

Certainly the emotional side of this is something that the MAIN Coalition will never win.

More than 550 people from throughout the country have been arrested since August.

In November, some protesters were injured when police used water hoses to disperse groups of demonstrators in freezing weather. One officer was injured.

The Oceti Sakowin camp is the overflow from smaller private and permitted protest sites nearby.

For indigenous communities, the uncertainty of what a Trump presidency will bring is compounded by a long history of mistreatment of indigenous Americans by the United States government.

Brolin posted a nude photo of himself standing on a red rock, in a weird nod to the tribe, with the caption: ‘Celebrate Standing Rock.

He said he’s had a warm reception from people at the protests.

The chief executive of ETP, Kelcy Warren, donated to Trump’s campaign, while the president-elect has investments in ETP and Phillips 66, another partner in the project. The segment under the river is the only remaining big chunk of construction on the 1,200-mile pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to a shipping point in IL.

“The whole world is watching”, said Miles Allard, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux.

“The federal government did not tell the pipeline to stop”. An appeal is pending.

The pipeline is largely complete except for the section that would pump oil under Lake Oahe. He was at the camp Sunday during the celebrations after the Army denied the permit for the pipeline to cross the Missouri River.

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Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II dismissed any controversy over Darcy’s decision going against the Corps’ recommendations.

Instead, the Corps will explore alternative routes to drill anyway.