(Dakota Access pipeline) The Latest: County Official: Feds Need to Enforce Corps Plan

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: County Official: Feds Need to Enforce Corps Plan

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNON BALL, N.D. — Nov 26, 2016, 5:51 PM ET

The Latest on the protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline (all times local):

4:50 p.m.

Officials from Morton County are weighing in on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to close land to those protesting the Dakota Access pipeline.

County commission chairman Cody Schulz says he's thankful for the Corps' decision to close the land on Dec. 5, but says it means nothing unless the federal law officers enforce it.

Schulz says county and state leaders have been asking for federal resources for months to help deal with the ongoing protests.

Schulz also joined other officials in urging the Obama administration to make a decision on an easement that would allow the pipeline to complete boring under Lake Oahe. He says the delay puts peoples' safety at risk.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-heitkamp-joins-protesters-leave-43792780

[pinboy3niner]

1. So much for local officials' protestations that they're "not involved" in the dispute

Bismarck City Administrator Keith Hunke said Friday the boycott is disappointing given that the city's businesses aren't involved in the dispute over the $3.8 billion pipeline that's to carry North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois.

"They really don't have any part in any of the concerns expressed by the Standing Rock Sioux Nation," Hunke said, adding that no businesses have reported an impact from boycotts.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tribe-calls-pipeline-opponents-boycott-bismarck-43778218

[FarCenter]

2. Bismark is not in Morton County. It is east of the Missouri River.

People east of the Missouri River, many of whom get their drinking water from Lake Oahe, don't appear to have a problem with the pipeline.