After the army corps of engineers further delayed the project to allow more time to evaluate the issue. The energy companys ceo slamming that decision in a statement, reading in part. I this action is motivated purely by politics at the expense of a company that has done nothing but play by the rules it was given. i if completed, the 3point8 billion dollar pipeline would run some 12 hundred miles through four states, carrying up to 570thousand barrels of now needs permission to cross under the missouri river. Its that move which is opposed by the neighboring Standing Rock sioux tribe and others. Mos says . If this pipeline should burst, its going to cause irreversible damage for millions of people along the missouri river. As the legal battle goes on. So do the antipipeline protests. Hundreds of people have been arrested at demonstrations since august. And activists are protesting at locations across the nation. Raven says . Im a mother and happens to this planet. On cam tag now the In