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Sacred Burial Grounds Destroyed, Judge Halts Construction on Portion of Dakota Access Pipeline
2016-09-07 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A federal judge in Washington, DC declined Tuesday to order the halt of all construction on a portion of the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) route that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had recently identified as sacred tribal burial ground, a site that was bulldozed over the Labor Day weekend by pipeline construction crews. Hundreds of people marched peacefully on Sept. 4 to protest the destruction of sacred sites and burial grounds in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.Dallas...
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