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Energy Transfer keeps up legal pressure after pipeline defeat

Energy Transfer applied for permit to finish Dakota Access By Mica Rosenberg and Ernest Scheyder WASHINGTON/CANNON BALL, N.D., Dec 6 (Reuters) – Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline turned to a federal judge late on Monday for a permit to finish the job after the federal government ruled against the controversial […]

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Dakota Access pipeline protestors plan to stay and fight despite North Dakota winter

Dakota Access pipeline protestors may move to heated buildings during winter By Timothy Mclaughlin Nov 1 (Reuters) – The head of a Native American tribe that has led months of demonstrations against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota said on Tuesday the group would keep up its protests through the state’s bitter

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Easy resolution unlikely for contentious Dakota Access pipeline

Native American activists, environmentalists digging in for long protest over Dakota Access pipeline as winter approaches By Catherine Ngai and Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) NEW YORK/CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA – A potential rerouting of a long-anticipated pipeline at the center of a protest in North Dakota would be a laborious and costly task, possibly delaying a startup by months and

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Obama decision on Dakota Access pipeline could hurt Bakken oil producers

Lack of pipeline infrastructure creates problems for shippers because there is little oil storage in North Dakota Reuters – By Catherine Ngai With the U.S. government siding in favor of Native American protests against a key North Dakota pipeline, local oil producers and shippers are facing the possibility of greater delays in getting a quick route to ship oil

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US court expected to decide whether to halt Dakota Access pipeline work

Dakota Access pipeline would deliver Bakken crude to US Gulf Coast By Julia Harte WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – After violent clashes over the weekend between protesters and security officers near the construction site, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a neighboring Native American tribe asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Sunday

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Enbridge announces delay of Sandpiper Pipeline Project

Sandpiper Pipeline put on hold until Bakken production recovers Sept 1 (Reuters) – Enbridge Inc, Canada’s largest pipeline company, said it will withdraw its regulatory applications pending with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the Sandpiper Pipeline Project. The long-planned and often-delayed Sandpiper pipeline project will be put on hold until crude oil production in North Dakota

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Native American pipeline protest in Washington, DC joined by celebrities

Native American pipeline protest over $3.7B project from North Dakota to US Gulf Coast By Ruthy Munoz WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Actors Susan Sarandon, Riley Keough and Shailene Woodley joined members of North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe outside a courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to protest against construction of a pipeline they say

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