Judge won’t stop oil from flowing through disputed pipeline
BISMARCK, N.D. — A judge refused to head off the imminent flow of oil in the disputed Dakota Access pipeline, likely clearing the way for operations to begin next week. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., denied a request by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes to stop oil from flowing while the tribes appeal his decision last week allowing pipeline construction to finish. Texas-based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners is finishing up pipeline work beneath Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota and the last piece of construction on the 1,200-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline to move North Dakota oil to a distribution point in Illinois. Both ETP and the Army Corps of Engineers had objected to the tribes’ latest attempt to halt the project, with Corps attorneys saying in court documents that President Donald Trump “has expressly determined that the pipeline is ‘in the national interest.’” The Corps last month granted ETP permission to lay pipe under the reservoir that it manages for the federal government, after Trump in January urged the project’s completion after months of legal delays. The Corps on Tuesday filed its opposition to those requests, saying the agency’s permission for the Lake Oahe work “represents the culmination of over two years of detailed environmental analysis and extensive consultation with.” The pipeline saga also has endured for months outside of the courtroom, with about 750 arrests of protesters in southern North Dakota from August through February.
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