The actresses were part of the Stop The Dakota Access Pipeline protest in Union Square, holding up signs and marching with others committed to halting the transport of crude oil from North Dakota to IL.
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Law enforcement officers were called to southern North Dakota to keep the peace between Native American protesters and developers of the pipeline. “We want to hold them back until we can get to court”.
A motion filed Tuesday in Polk County District Court argues that “time is of the essence”, for the plaintiffs as crews are already beginning to dig trenches across Iowa farmland.
The landowners believe that Dakota Access is not a public utility and should not have the ability to use eminent domain to forcibly access Iowa landowners’ property to build a private pipeline. Wednesday, camps were set up near where Dakota Access crews will begin digging along the Missouri River.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe late last month sued federal regulators for approving the pipeline, which would be the biggest-capacity one to carry oil out of the western part of the state.
About 45 construction vehicles were backed up along a road Wednesday afternoon, Brave Bull Allard said. He says troopers are helping the Morton County Sheriff’s office.
He says no arrests were reported.
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Lawyer Bill Hanigan of the Davis Brown Law Firm in Des Moines is representing the plaintiffs, which include the Northwest Iowa Landowners Association, as well as individual property owners.
