The state argues in comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that shutting down the pipeline would cause “irreparable harm” to North Dakota, including a loss of oil revenue and a shift of oil transportation to rail. Leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, meanwhile, have pointed to the potential harm a pipeline breach would have on the tribe’s water supply.
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Less than a week before Christmas, 1890, 70 people, including 11 families plus several single men gathered in a hastily constructed fort near Capitol, Montana, after receiving word that the Sioux had left the reservation.