The decision is a victory for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of protesters camped near the construction site who have opposed the project because they said would it threaten a water source and cultural sites. Federal officials had given the protesters until tomorrow to leave a campsite near the construction site.
In a statement on Sunday, the Department of the Army’s assistant secretary for Civil Works, Jo-Ellen Darcy, said that the decision was based on a need to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing.
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I am shocked the government would cave in to simple people's reasonable requests.
Fantastic news.
Army Corps of Engineers previously approved the route and it's passed all environmental challenges. This is nothing more than another politicized gov't agency.
That sucks high fuel prices to follow.
Going right through as planned when the new administration takes over in DC.
10:33 clueless. Do more research. DAPL lied and the proper studies were not done. Bismark rejected it FOR THE SAME REASONS the Tribes were protesting.
10:51 If you had a clue, the high prices TO FOLLOW are due to the recent announcement that OPEC is cutting back prices to jack up prices and rip off the consumers.
This was about more than the pipeline.
This pipeline would be of no benefit to the US. All the tar sands oil would have been exported. No one monitors the 1700 miles of it and it brings no significant number of jobs.
Sad to see how uneducated the general public is on such an important issue, but what do you expect when their only news source is the MSM.
wasnt the "protest" area trashed? How many pipelines are under a body of water?
8:20 trashed? no, not quite sure where you got that from.
9:39- I saw an article where people who were "protesting" were turning it into Burning man and leaving all their trash. Also I saw where it was more white people than actual Native American.
Many Americans are so stupid it defies explanation.
They cheer for Big Oil Companies to make more profits.
They send their children to fight illegal wars of aggression in foreign lands in order to benefit various corporations' interests.
They cheer for the destruction of water tables so Big Oil can use fracking techniques to obtain more natural resources from the ground.
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