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Army Corps on Dakota Pipeline: Pipeline Route Will Be Moved

By gregladen on December 4, 2016.

According to NBC:

Standing Rock Chairman: Pipeline Plan Denial 'A Win For All Of America' 1:57
The secretary of the Army Corps of Engineers told Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II Sunday that the current route for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline will be denied.

"Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it's clear that there's more work to do," the Army's Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, Jo-Ellen Darcy said in a statement Sunday. "The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing."

So, this is a win for Standing Rock and the native community there.

It is not yet a win for the climate. The pipeline should not be built at all. But this is still good news.

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This is good news. Let's hope the Energy Transfer folks can't merely wait out the transfer of political power in the U.S.

By Christopher Winter (not verified) on 04 Dec 2016 #permalink

I should have thought of this before. The vital question is, how much will it be moved? Evidently that hasn't been decided yet. I suppose the logical answer is, as little as possible, to minimize the amount of pipeline that has to be dug up and shifted.

By Christopher Winter (not verified) on 04 Dec 2016 #permalink

It is unlikely that Trump will stand for the project to be simply stopped (especially since I hear he would gain financially from its completion). I think the only chance for a satisfactory outcome is for an altered route to be approved and all the pipeline buried before he takes office, yes?

Only morons with no scientific aptitude or spread sheet scientists whose funding comes from the government skim believe in Man made global warming.

By Effington (not verified) on 30 Jan 2017 #permalink

And you're smarter than 97% of climate scientists because. . .? Look around at the broken temperature records, melting glaciers and seas rising. Oh, I forgot, you're head is in the sand and you don't believe in evidence.

That ain't sand, Gary....