Feds won’t issue pipeline permit in North Dakota

By: 
Erin Sommers Graphic-Advocate Editor

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After months of protests by Native Americans and their allies in North Dakota, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday it won’t issue a permit for Dakota Access to cross under a lake that provides water to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
The decision halts construction on the pipeline, which was set to bring oil from North Dakota through Iowa to a port in Illinois.
The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, Jo-Ellen Darcy, the Army's Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, said in a statement issued Sunday.
"Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it's clear that there's more work to do," Darcy said. "The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing."
To that end, Darcy said the corps will complete an Environmental Impact Statement, with the full public input that entails. 
Read more in the Dec. 7 edition. 

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