(COMMONDREAMS) — Water protectors celebrated a “very significant victory” on Wednesday as a federal judge deemed safety evaluations of the Dakota Access Pipeline insufficient and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to “reconsider” its analysis of the risks the crude oil pipeline poses to the environment and the public.
Aan oil spill from the Belle Fourche Pipeline that was discovered Dec. 5, 2016 in Ash Coulee Creek, a tributary of the Little Missouri River, near Belfield, N.D. Authorities say the pipeline spill is now believed to be one of the biggest in state history. (Scott Stockdill/North Dakota Department of Health)
BISMARCK, N.D. — A December oil pipeline spill in western North Dakota might have been three times larger than first estimated and among the biggest in state history, a state environmental expert said Friday.
(MPN) Before the struggle over the Dakota Access pipeline came to the forefront of national news, there was the Keystone XL pipeline.
"This is the #NoDAPL last stand."
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., points to a chart as he questions Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, during Pruitt’s confirmation hearing before the committee. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
(ANALYSIS) — “Environmentalism is out of control.”
The State Department’s recent estimate means the pipeline could bring in 42,100 jobs in total.
The cause of the leak is still under investigation.
"'People will mobilize again."
The bill would protect any driver who 'unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic.’
If you thought the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline was over...
