Dakota Access company seeks to block pipeline study
Source: Associated Press
Dakota Access company seeks to block pipeline study
Blake Nicholson, Associated Press Updated 4:19 pm, Tuesday, January 17, 2017
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) The company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants a federal judge to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion pipeline's disputed crossing of a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.
Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners asked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday to stop the Corps from publishing a notice in the Federal Register announcing the study. Boasberg scheduled a hearing for Wednesday.
ETP wants any further study put on hold until Boasberg, in Washington, D.C., rules on whether ETP already has the necessary permission to lay pipe under Lake Oahe the reservoir that's the water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
ETP wants to block further study so that the decision on the permitting, which is likely weeks away, will be "free from the risk that its ruling will be frustrated or thwarted by new governmental actions." The Corps did not immediately respond to ETP's request.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Dakota-Access-company-seeks-to-block-pipeline-10862745.php
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)and since ETP is now considered a person by the U.S. Supreme Court, then they need to honor the TREATIES, which were signed by the government of WE the People
Jimbo101
(776 posts)Last year, *Perry joined the board of Energy Transfer Partners, the Dallas-based company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline; its CEO, Dallas billionaire Kelcy Warren, was a major supporter of Perrys political endeavors.
* former Texas Gov. Rick Perry
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Summer has gone and now the Winter is full on. But the Protectors at Standing Rock know full well what lies just ahead, and they will continue to stand strong in peace and respect, in defense of the earth that sustains all life.