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Oil pipeline protesters disrupt construction sites
Source: Associated Press
Oil pipeline protesters disrupt construction sites
Updated 5:50 pm, Wednesday, August 31, 2016
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Arrests have been made in North Dakota and Iowa during protests against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Authorities cut free a man who bound himself to construction equipment and arrested at least two protesters Wednesday during a rally near Highway 6 outside St. Anthony, North Dakota.
The site is about 20 miles west of the main protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where pipeline construction has been halted for days.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Oil-pipeline-protesters-disrupt-second-9195286.php
