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US judge refuses to block oil pipeline near tribal lands
2016-09-09 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The US government has stepped into a dispute over an oil pipeline in North Dakota, blocking its construction on federal tribal lands. It also asked the company behind it to "pause" action on a wider stretch held sacred by a Native American tribe. The government order came shortly after a district judge denied a request to halt construction on the pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline is opposed by over 200 Native American groups who fear its impact on waterways. The $3.7bn (2.8bn) project...
Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Halted by Largest Native American Protest in History
2016-09-08 17:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Return to Now: The construction of a thousand-mile oil pipeline through the heart of the country has prompted the largest Native American protest in history. Indigenous Americans from all over the United States and Canada have gathered near the source of the pipeline -- a large fracking site in North Dakota -- to protect their ancestral lands, rivers and lakes from pollution and destruction. The pipeline -- which the U.S. Government quietly approved last month -- will cut right through sacred burial grounds,...
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Oil pipeline protest turns violent after American Indian burial sites destroyed
2016-09-04 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A protest of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned violent Saturday after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota. Morton County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said four private security guards and two guard dogs were injured after several hundred protesters confronted construction crews at the site just outside the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. One of the security officers was...
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North Dakota oil pipeline protesters stand their ground: 'This is sacred land'
2016-08-29 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Cannonball river flows into the mighty Missouri about 50 miles due south of Bismarck, North Dakota. At its confluence, a protest encampment really a series of camps, on both sides of the Cannonball, strewn with kitchens and canteens, portable toilets, stabling for horses, sweat lodges and tall teepees, and stands selling indigenous art has sprung up. The inhabitants are there to block the planned $3.7bn Dakota Access Pipeline, which would transport fracked crude from the Bakken oil...
Judge to rule on tribe's oil pipeline request by Sept. 9
2016-08-24 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Larampadinapoli: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg listened to arguments Wednesday in Washington, D.C. He says he will rule on the case by September 9. In its lawsuit, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe accused the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of failing to fully comply with the federal Clean Water Act, National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act when the agency approved the pipeline's construction on July 25. The pipeline is created to move North Dakota oil to IL. The tribe says...
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