Local law enforcement say that some protesters were armed and it was not safe for officers to intervene in the conflict. However, work will continue west of the highway because the judge believes that the US Army Corps of Engineers lacks jurisdiction on private land.
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An attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe says the tribe submitted important new evidence on Friday afternoon about the discovery of at least 27 burial and other culturally significant features in the path of the pipeline.
The tribe wants to halt further construction on an area 2 miles west of North Dakota Highway 1806, near Lake Oahe, until a judge rules on its previous motion to stop construction, the tribe said.
It was the second work stoppage request in front of Boasberg.
“They did this on a holiday weekend, one day after we filed court papers identifying these sacred sites”.
A Dakota Access attorney says if there weren’t disturbances on the section of the oil pipeline that was part of a federal judge’s decision, it would be completed by the end of the week.
Leone also said in court that there were two more attacks on crews in North Dakota on Tuesday.
“If we all stand together, that gives us more of a chance to beat the pipeline”, Ortegon said.
A federal judge gas imposed a temporary halt on construction at some of the Dakota Access pipeline work sites.
A group of firms led by Energy Transfer Partners ETP.N is building the 1,100-mile (1,770-km) pipeline.
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II is expected to release a statement on Facebook later Tuesday. Demonstrators protested again Tuesday, using graffiti and attaching themselves to machinery.
Cody Hall, a spokesman for the Red Warrior Camp, told the Herald he didn’t condone the spray painting.
A weekend confrontation between protesters and construction workers near Lake Oahe prompted the tribe to ask Sunday for a temporary stop of construction.
The request is in addition to the tribe’s other challenge to the Army Corp of Engineers’ decision to fast-track grant permits to the operator of the four-state pipeline.
The pipeline’s developer… Energy Transfer Partners. did not immediately respond to the tribe’s court documents.
The pipeline will cross North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and IL and is due to be finished this year.
A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Saturday’s protests were triggered, the tribes said, when the pipeline company used bulldozers to destroy sacred tribal sites whose locations had been identified in court documents filed on Friday. The Corps agreed with the pause in construction for “preserving peace”.
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Since April, people of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and from around the nation have been fighting the project, which travels adjacent to the reservation.
