US judge rules against tribes seeking to stop Dakota pipeline
Source: Reuters
07 MAR 2017 AT 12:40 ET
A U..S. judge on Tuesday ruled against native tribes seeking to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from moving forward on the basis that it would prevent them from practicing religious ceremonies, as legal options for opponents of the project narrow.
Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in a written ruling, rejected the Cheyenne River Sioux’s request for an injunction to withdraw permission issued by the Army Corps for the last link of the oil pipeline under Lake Oahe in North Dakota.
Energy Transfer Partners LP is building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline to move crude from the Northern Plains to the Midwest and then on to the Gulf of Mexico.
The denial of the injunction represents yet another setback to the Native American tribes – the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux – that have been leading the charge against the line, which runs adjacent to tribal territory in southern North Dakota.
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