Dozens of protesters remained at a North Dakota camp site on Thursday, refusing to vacate the area where Native Americans and supporters have tried to block oil pipeline construction for nearly a year. Law enforcement appeared Thursday morning with several armored vehicles accompanied by bulldozers to begin cleaning up the area. Authorities said there could … Read more
After nearly a year of occupying North Dakota prairie land to block the route of a controversial oil pipeline, many of the camp’s holdouts finally marched out Wednesday to meet the federal evacuation deadline. Earlier this month US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revive the pipeline project, and after the final permit … Read more
Pope Francis has appeared to back Native Americans fighting the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. The Pope said indigenous cultures had a right to defend “their ancestral relationship to the earth”. He did not specifically name the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes, who are opposing the pipeline in North Dakota. It came as … Read more
The company building the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline says it plans to resume work immediately after getting permission from the US Army. Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) said the remaining work on the pipeline would take about three months to complete. The $3.8bn (£3bn) project had stalled for months due to opposition from Native American … Read more
The Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, the Army’s assistant secretary for civil works announced Sunday. Jo-Ellen Darcy said she based her decision on a need to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing. This comes three weeks after … Read more