Following violent clashes between protesters and security forces, Texas-based oil pipeline company Dakota Access, LLC agreed to pause production on the Dakota Access Pipeline until Friday, following weeks of protests, the Huffington Post reported. This ruling comes after extensive protest from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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The tribe says there are burial sites and other culturally significant features in the pipeline’s path.
“Today’s denial of a temporary restraining order against DAPL west of Lake Oahe puts my people’s sacred places at further risk of ruin and desecration”, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II said in a statement released Tuesday. Hasselman said that if Judge Boasberg rules against the tribe later this week, they will consider filing an appeal.
Thus, while a temporary halt is now in place, the Tribe’s broader request still remains. We get an update from Stephanie Tsosie, associate attorney with Earthjustice who helps represent the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers over the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Judge Boasberg declared that he will rule on the Tribe’s challenge of federal regulators’ decision to grant permits to the operators of the Dakota Access pipeline by 9 September. The tribes oppose the construction of the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which, if completed, would carry almost half million barrels of crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale formation.
