North Dakota tribe's request to stop work on pipeline Denied By JAMES MacPHERSON Sep. 9, 2016 2:48
Source: Associated Press
NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's attempt to halt construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline near their North Dakota reservation was denied Friday by a federal judge.
The tribe had challenged the Army Corps of Engineers' decision to grant permits at more than 200 water crossings for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners' $3.8 billion pipeline, saying that the project violates several federal laws, including the National Historic Preservation Act, and will harm water supplies. The tribe also says ancient sacred sites have been disturbed.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington denied the tribe's request for a temporary injunction in a one-page ruling that included no explanation. It ordered the parties to appear for a status conference on Sept. 16.
Attorney Jan Hasselman with environmental group Earthjustice, who filed the lawsuit in July on behalf of the tribe, said in the days before the ruling that it'll be challenged.
"We will have to pursue our options with an appeal and hope that construction isn't completed while that (appeal) process is going forward," he said. "We will continue to pursue vindication of the tribe's lawful rights even if the pipeline is complete."
Energy Transfer Partners officials didn't return The Associated Press' phone calls or emails seeking comment.
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"Tribe has not demonstrated that an injunction is warranted here"
Yes they did show every reason why the injunction was warranted.
I guess the River is not yet tainted and as for the ancestral grounds already destroyed..oh well.
This is sad & sick.
How convenient the governor of the state calls out the state militia (National Guard) yesterday, (because someone spray paints a bulldozer).
Now this judge basically tells the Lakota and the Cheyenne Sioux and any and ALL other Indigenous People your land, your water, your sacred sites, don't mean a f***ing thing, hey, your burial grounds under the National Historic Preservation Act, that doesn't mean a thing.
So he the judge gives a 58 page ruling, when from the PRESERVATION ACT which is over 25 pages long, what pray tell was missing from this ACT that he did see or read.
But if it was his parents grave site, he and this governor, and everyone from the town 20 miles away would be up in arms, they were so they diverted it, will just put it on the reservation--------------problem solved.
To hell with treaties to hell with everything.
The Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery enablers don't need any stinking ACTS or TREATIES, or Laws, or SOVEREIGNTY written in the CONSTITUTION for the Native Americas tribes, nope, nada, zilch, zero, that don't mean a thing.
They have a energy company dictating whats is going on along with the "Army Corp of Engineers" and the enablers of the trade policies in this country that basically say screw everyone, they are more important than water and sacred land or land.
And if anyone had any sense on what is happening in this country from the economic, social infrastructure of this country look no further on how the Federal Government treats the Indigenous People.
Because how they treat the Indigenous People is how they are treating you (citizens) from the inner cities out into the countryside, this is a plain fact, it is right out in the open, look at what they are doing on the reservations, and how that imitates out into this country in general, it is right there.
Where in the hell is Obama and Senator Hietkamp? 
http://saige.org/words/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NATIVE-AMERICAN-GRAVES-PROTECTION-AND-REPATRIATION-ACT-saige-2013.pdf
Please Donate to the following, this ruling is JUST WRONG
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Statement for Chairman Archambault II
"Regardless of the court's decision today, we are winning the spiritual battle. We must continue to have faith and believe in the strength of our prayers and not do anything in violence. We must believe in the creator and good things will come. We will continue to stand united and peaceful in our opposition to the pipeline."
and then to those that are standing around enabling the enablers, will look to blame, when they should have been the one looking in the mirror, just amazing, they only see greed as the end result and it has been this way for a very long time. Keystone and the DAPL highlights what has been happening to the great lakes and the the land for years, and while its going on the MSM only reports when something bad happens, no public discourse
