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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:53 PM Jan 2017

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

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Dakota Access company seeks to block pipeline study (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2017 OP
I guess they keep forgetting that there are TREATIES turbinetree Jan 2017 #1
Energy Transfer Partners & Trump DOE pick Rick Perry Jimbo101 Jan 2017 #2
The Protectors are still standing strong at Standing Rock for Mother Earth and for all the people Achilleaze Jan 2017 #3

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
1. I guess they keep forgetting that there are TREATIES
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:04 PM
Jan 2017

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)
2. Energy Transfer Partners & Trump DOE pick Rick Perry
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:06 PM
Jan 2017
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/12/13/recap-rick-perrys-texas-energy-legacy/

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 Perry’s political endeavors.

* former Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
3. The Protectors are still standing strong at Standing Rock for Mother Earth and for all the people
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:09 PM
Jan 2017

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.

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