Judge orders construction halted on segment of Dakota Access Pipeline

Download the results of 2016 network security survey. Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and her vice president Ajama Baraka also expressed support appearing at the protest Tuesday. Archambault said the protesters were “provoked” by the company’s actions. It’s hard for me to hear reports from the front lines of officers of the law just standing on a hillside, watching, as these thugs-for-hire unleash vicious animals on a crowd doing nothing more than protecting what is theirs.

But the report on NPR’s website also contains video footage from Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Two protesters attached themselves to bulldozers, and some machinery was reportedly vandalized. These formations and grave sites are adjacent to and in the pipeline’s proposed right-of-way approximately 1 to 2 miles away from the Lake Oahe crossing site.

Judge Boasberg said he will rule on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s challenge of federal regulators’ decision to grant permits to Dakota Access pipeline by Friday. Ogichidaa Kavanaugh stated, “Grand Council Treaty #3 stands united with the families of Standing Rock as they fight to protect the sacred waters and traditional lands for their future generations”. The judge said all the land to the west of the highway is fair game, which the tribe considered a major disappointment. A final ruling is expected to come by the end of Friday. “The Great Sioux Reservation, formed in the eighteen-sixties, shrunk again and again – in 1980, a federal court said, of the whole sad story, “a more ripe and rank case of dishonorable dealings will never, in all probability, be found in our history, ‘” Bill McKibben writes in an essay for The New Yorker”. The company said it hasn’t damaged any historical sites during construction.

A spokeswoman for the Morton County Sheriff’s Office, a spokeswoman for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners and a spokesman of environmental group Earthjustice didn’t immediately respond to telephone messages requesting comment.

Goldtooth said that the protesters were just trying to prevent a sacred site from getting demolished.

Hundreds of people have joined the Standing Rock Sioux to protest the pipeline. Construction there has now been halted as well after the tribe sought a temporary restraining order following this past weekend’s clash.

“The Dakota Access pipeline would fuel climate change, cause untold damage to the environment, and significantly disturb sacred lands and the way of life for Native Americans in the upper Midwest”, a petition on CredoAction.com states.

It was the second work stoppage request in front of Boasberg.

Members of the tribe argue that building the pipeline in the region would destroy sacred sites and ancient burial grounds, and threaten their drinking-water supply.

“These protests are not about the safety and efficiency of pipelines – but about keeping it in the ground”.

The Puyallup canoe family drove 24 hours straight to North Dakota and arrived on Tuesday.

The Army Corps of Engineers said in court documents that said it won’t oppose the tribe’s request in the interest of “preserving peace”. Protests turned violent on Saturday.

Pro: The pipeline wouldn’t just be an economic boon, it would also significantly decrease US reliance on foreign oil, the developer Energy Transfer Partners said.