The Obama administration unexpectedly intervened to revoke authorization while reconsidering whether the construction around Lake Oahe violates federal laws. Protesters clashed with private security for the pipeline last weekend when the company bulldozed through possible tribal burial grounds.
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Friday’s ruling by Boasberg, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, came amid growing protests over the pipeline, which would cross the Missouri River less than a mile upstream of the reservation.
Below is an interview of one of those jubilant activists who is overjoyed to see the halt on the pipeline, but who is still cautious of what is to come.
In the midst of the Dakota Access Pipeline saga, an arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe wants a permanent halt.
Protesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Cannon Ball, N.D., hours before a federal judge denied the tribe an injunction against the pipeline.
Dakota Access says no sacred sites were destroyed and claims that six of the sites identified by the tribe were directly over the existing Northern Border natural gas pipeline and “could not possibly be original artifacts”. The tribe had sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in July, saying that they were not adequately consulted by the permit agency for the pipeline before the plans were drawn up.
While the appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending, attorney Jan Hasselman argued in court records the court should issue an injunction to halt pipeline construction around Lake Oahe to “prevent additional losses and desecration of grave sites”.
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Opposing the pipeline (Above) Matthew Black Eagle Man, of the Dakota Sioux Long Plain tribe, puts on a deeds bonnet Sunday at Indiana University’s Sample Gates before participating in a rally against the planned Dakota Access oil pipeline that would cross Native American land in North Dakota.
The statement also said the case “highlighted the need for a serious discussion about nationwide reforms “with respect to considering tribes” views on these types of infrastructure projects”.
Tribal chairman Dave Archambault II said, “Our hearts are full”.
“Everywhere in Indian Country, people are talking about this”, said Eid, who spoke by phone Saturday while on horseback during a parade at the Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, Arizona.
But like many others celebrating the government’s announcement, Moose said the victory was not clear-cut because of the judge’s decision.
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The original route for the proposed pipeline crossed the Missouri River further north, upstream of Bismarck, the state capital, but the route was changed when the company said it found that the new route near Standing Rock was shorter and less costly.
