DAKOTA ACCESS
Opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline, which carries oil from North Dakota to a shipping point in Illinois, want Biden‘s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to shut it down.
A federal appeals court ruled last week that the project must undergo a more thorough environmental review, known as an environmental impact statement, but it declined to shut the line down while the review is completed.
Texas-based pipeline owner Energy Transfer maintains the line is safe. But pipeline opponents say the ruling means it is operating with an invalid permit.
The Army Corps faces a Feb. 10 hearing where it must tell a federal judge how it expects to proceed without a permit granting easement for the 1,172-mile (1,886 kilometer) pipeline to cross beneath Lake Oahe, along the Missouri River. The Standing Rock Sioux, who draw water from the river, have said they fear the line will someday fail and pollute the water and land.
Buoyed by Keystone, pipeline opponents push action
Amy Forliti Associated Press
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A crowd representing a majority of the remaining Dakota Access Pipeline protesters march near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in 2017. After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL’s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to carry oil from Canada to Texas, opponents of other pipelines hope the projects they’ve been fighting would be next.Mike McCleary | Bismarck Tribune (AP)
After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL’s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to carry oil from Canada to Texas, opponents of other pipelines hoped the projects they’ve been fighting would be next.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to ca
FILE - In an Aug. 21, 2017 file photo, workers make sure that each section of the Enbridge replacement Line 3 that is joined passes muster in Superior, Wisc. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii /Star Tribune via AP)
TIME RELEASE AT 9:00 AM CT SUN. JAN. 31 - FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2020 file photo, sections of pipe are lined off of Cove Hollow Road in Elliston, Virginia for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP)
FILE - In this April 4, 2019 file photo, Phillip Flagg,, pulls supplies up to his tree sit he has been in 50 feet above ground since last December fighting Mountain Valley Pipeline s (MVP) planned route near Poor Mountain in Montgomery County, Va. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP)