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To: Mr. Douglas

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/308702-army-corps-halting-work-on-dakota-access-pipeline

Excerpts:

Federal officials have denied the final permits required for the Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota.

The Army Corps of Engineers on Sunday announced it would instead conduct an environmental impact review of the 1,170-mile pipeline project...

Energy Transfers didn’t immediately respond to the announcement on Sunday, but CEO Kelcy Warren has previously said the project — a majority of which is complete — will move forward, even if it means waiting for Trump to take office next month....

“President Obama’s decision not to issue the final easement is a rejection of the entire regulatory and judicial system, as well as the scores of Army Corps of Engineers and civil servants who toiled for more than 800 days to ensure the process was followed correctly, in accordance with the law,” said Craig Stevens, a spokesman for the group Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now.

...while the tribe fought against it in the courts and within the Obama administration.

After a federal judge approved of regulators’ initial permitting process for the pipeline, the Obama administration immediately stepped in and said it would conduct a new review of the project. That review culminated in Sunday’s announcement from the Army Corps...


87 posted on 12/06/2016 12:05:38 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: 21twelve

That slippery ba$tard.

How many days left?


88 posted on 12/06/2016 12:07:26 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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