The memo to employees, which was also released to some media outlets, is the first time in months the company has provided significant details of the four-state, 1,172-mile (1886-km) project.
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Labor leaders were not the only ones to air concerns over the Obama administration’s move last week to delay construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The tribe and environmental groups had sued to stop the project, arguing that the pipeline threatens water sources and sacred lands.
It came the same day as a planned “day of action” in cities around the USA and in other countries, including a rally that drew hundreds in Washington to hear Sen. Twenty protesters were charged with criminal trespass, while two others who were bound to construction equipment were charged with disorderly conduct and hindering law enforcement.
The memo does not say whether the company plans to voluntarily halt construction in North Dakota 20 miles east and west of Lake Oahe, as requested by the federal agencies. Energy Transfer Partners LP, however on Tuesday remained steadfast in its commitment to complete the pipeline and planned to meet with federal government officials “to understand their position and reiterate our commitment to bring the Dakota Access Pipeline into operation”.
“We won’t stop until they stop”, wrote the Sacred Stone Camp, where the Standing Rock Sioux and allied Indigenous nations and supporters have gathered in protest of the pipeline’s construction.
“The people who’ve built Clinton’s campaign war chest and her personal fortune are the same people who paid for the dogs that bit young native Americans”, wrote McKibben, who was tapped by Sanders to serve on the Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee.
The union said work was shut down at multiple sites in Morton and Mercer counties Tuesday and the stoppages are affecting about 300 union members in North Dakota.
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say 22 people have been arrested for interfering with the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline about 70 miles northwest of the main protest site, which is near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has asked for federal help in coping with the long-running protest of an oil pipeline that drawn thousands to land near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
Speakers called on President Barack Obama, who visited the reservation in 2014, to support their mission. “There’s not as many and because of it going through a Native American site or burial grounds, it was a real rising of people getting together, saying this is very wrong”.
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“For these reasons, the Friends of Peace/Climate stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux and the climate action community in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline”, Northcutt said.
