THANK YOU President Obama!

[Avalux]

I've been waiting for this and I knew he'd find a reason to halt construction of the black snake, for now.

The Lakota call it "game changer".

A federal judge denied a Native American tribe's request to temporarily block construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline, which has sparked heated protests. But the U.S. Justice Department responded to the ruling by announcing steps to protect — for now — a lake along the construction route.

Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., decided that there is not enough evidence to support the argument that building the pipeline would harm the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which sued to stop the pipeline's construction.

The Departments of Justice, the Interior and the Army weighed in immediately after the ruling's release with an announcement that the Corps will at least temporarily halt authorization for construction of the pipeline around Lake Oahe while it reviews its decisions regarding the large reservoir. The government requested that Dakota Access, the Texas-based company building the pipeline, voluntarily pause construction within 20 miles of Lake Oahe.

The federal government also announced that the case highlights the need to consider "nationwide reform with respect to considering tribes' views on these types of infrastructure projects."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-rule-today-dakota-access-pipeline-case-protests/story?id=41973080

[cilla4progress]

1. It's about history now.

What's going to be your place in history. Where do you stand and what will history make of you.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. Yes!

I was just posting about this on another thread.

[librarylu]

4. Excellent.

Just waiting to see what the judge would say, I guess.

[James48]

6. Bunk

read the words-

"The government requested that Dakota Access, the Texas-based company building the pipeline, voluntarily pause construction "


The company isn't going to "voluntarily pause construction"- hell they ordered their bulldozers to intentionally destroy the indian mounds so that the Court would have nothing left to save - why on earth does anyone think they would voluntarily pause anything?

In the meantime, National Guard troops were mobilized and deployed by the Governor to protect the bulldozers.

Get real, people. The corporation assault on heritage graves will continue full speed ahead.

[MyNameIsKhan]

7. Thank you...