Army green-lights completion of Dakota Access pipeline
- 7 years ago
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted an easement allowing the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, paving the way for construction of the final 1.5 miles of the more than 1,700-mile pipeline. The Standing Rock Tribe vowed to fight the decision in court. The notice comes a month after Donald Trump formally backed the project in one of his first acts as US president. The line had been delayed for several months after protests from Native American tribes and climate activists.