Army to 許す 完成 of Dakota 接近 oil pipeline

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ― The Army said Tuesday that it will 許す the $3.8 billion Dakota 接近 oil pipeline to cross under a Missouri River 貯蔵所 in North Dakota, (疑いを)晴らすing the way for 完成 of the 論争d four-明言する/公表する 事業/計画(する).

However, construction could still be 延期するd because the Standing 激しく揺する Sioux tribe, which has led 対立, said it would fight the 最新の 開発 in 法廷,裁判所.

The Army ーするつもりであるs to 取り消す その上の 環境の 熟考する/考慮する and 許す the Lake Oahe crossing as 早期に as Wednesday, によれば 法廷,裁判所 文書s the 司法(官) Department とじ込み/提出するd that 含む letters to members of 議会 from 副 Assistant Army 長官 Paul Cramer.

FILE - This Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. ...

FILE - This Sept. 29, 2016, とじ込み/提出する photo, shows a section of the Dakota 接近 Pipeline under construction 近づく the town of St. Anthony in Morton 郡, N.D. The Army has 通知するd 議会 Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, that it will 許す the $3.8 billion Dakota 接近 pipeline to cross under a Missouri River 貯蔵所 in North Dakota, 完全にするing the four-明言する/公表する 事業/計画(する) to move North Dakota oil to Illinois. The Army ーするつもりであるs to 許す the crossing under Lake Oahe as 早期に as Wednesday, Feb. 8. The crossing is the final big chunk of work on the pipeline. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune 経由で AP, とじ込み/提出する)

The stretch under Lake Oahe is the final big chunk of work on the 1,200-mile pipeline that would carry North Dakota oil through the Dakotas and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. Developer Energy 移転 Partners had hoped to have the pipeline operating by the end of 2016, but construction has been 立ち往生させるd while the Army 軍団 of Engineers and the Dallas-based company 戦う/戦いd in 法廷,裁判所 over the crossing.

The Standing 激しく揺する Sioux, whose 保留(地)/予約 is just 石油精製 from the crossing, 恐れるs a 漏れる would 汚染する its drinking water. The tribe has led 抗議するs that drew hundreds and at times thousands of people who dubbed themselves "water protectors" to an 野営 近づく the crossing. ETP says the pipeline is 安全な.

詳細(に述べる)s of the tribe's 合法的な challenge to the Army's 決定/判定勝ち(する) were still 存在 worked out, 弁護士/代理人/検事 Jan Hasselman said. But 部族の Chairman Dave Archambault said the tribe is "undaunted" by the Army's 決定/判定勝ち(する). Even if the pipeline is finished and begins operating, he said, the tribe will 押し進める to get it shut 負かす/撃墜する.

An 査定/評価 行為/行うd last year 決定するd the crossing would not have a 重要な 衝撃 on the 環境. H owever, then-Assistant Army 長官 for Civil 作品 Jo-Ellen Darcy on Dec. 4 拒絶する/低下するd to 問題/発行する 許可 for the crossing, 説 a broader 環境の 熟考する/考慮する was 令状d.

ETP called Darcy's 決定/判定勝ち(する) 政治上 動機づけるd and (刑事)被告 then-大統領 Barack Obama's 行政 of 延期するing the 事柄 until he left office. The 軍団 開始する,打ち上げるd a 熟考する/考慮する of the crossing on Jan. 18, two days before Obama left office, that could have taken up to two years to 完全にする. 大統領 Donald Trump 調印するd an (n)役員/(a)執行力のある 活動/戦闘 Jan. 24 telling the 軍団 to quickly 再考する Darcy's 決定/判定勝ち(する).

The 法廷,裁判所 文書s とじ込み/提出するd Tuesday 含む a 提案するd 連邦の 登録(する) notice 終結させるing the 熟考する/考慮する.

"I have 決定するd that there is no 原因(となる) for 完全にするing any 付加 環境の 分析," 事実上の/代理 Assistant Army 長官 Douglas Lamont said in a 覚え書き.

The Standing 激しく揺する Sioux argues that under the Fort Laramie 条約s of 1851 and 1888, the 連邦の 政府 is 強いるd to consider a tribe's 福利事業 when making 決定/判定勝ち(する)s that 影響する/感情 the tribe.

"The Obama 行政 正確に 設立する that the tribe's 条約 権利s needed to be 尊敬(する)・点d, and that the easement should not be 認めるd without その上の review and consideration of 代案/選択肢 crossing 場所s," Hasselman said. "Trump's 逆転 of that 決定/判定勝ち(する) continues a historic pattern of broken 約束s to Indian Tribes and 違反 of 条約 権利s. They will be held accountable in 法廷,裁判所."

North Dakota's congressional 代表 and its 知事 welcomed the Army's 告示. But 環境の groups, 含むing the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, 国際アムネスティ USA and the 中心 for 生物学の 多様制, 問題/発行するd 声明s 説 the Trump 行政 is putting 法人組織の/企業の 利益(をあげる)s ahead of the 権利s of Native Am ericans and the 環境.

ETP has been 均衡を保った to begin 演習ing under Lake Oahe as soon as it has 是認. 労働者s have 演習d 入ること/参加(者) and 出口 穴を開けるs for the crossing, and oil has been put in the pipeline 主要な up to the lake in 予期 of finishing the 事業/計画(する). ETP spokeswoman Vicki Granado didn't すぐに 答える/応じる to a request for comment on the Army's 決定/判定勝ち(する), but CEO Kelcy 過密な住居 told The Associated 圧力(をかける) in November that the company should be able to finish the 事業/計画(する) in a little over three months once it has the go-ahead.

Those at the 抗議する 野営 have at times 衝突/不一致d with police, 主要な to nearly 700 逮捕(する)s. The (軍の)野営地,陣営's 全住民 thinned to より小数の than 300 as 厳しい winter 天候 arrived and as Standing 激しく揺する 公式の/役人s pleaded for the (軍の)野営地,陣営 to 解散する before the spring flooding season. The 軍団 has 通知するd remaining 抗議する人s that the 政府-owned land will be の近くにd Feb. 22.

But Phyllis Young, a 抗議する leader and member of the Standing 激しく揺する Sioux, believes the Army's 決定/判定勝ち(する) may draw some people 支援する. 対立 to oil pipelines "is our life struggle, and we're going to continue fighting however we have to do it," she said without (a)手の込んだ/(v)詳述するing.

The area where the company will 演習 is about half a mile to the north of the 抗議する (軍の)野営地,陣営, and road 接近 is north of a 主要道路 橋(渡しをする) outside the (軍の)野営地,陣営 that's been 封鎖するd by the 明言する/公表する since October. A frozen river and 雪の降る,雪の多い hills are between the 演習 area and the (軍の)野営地,陣営. The construction area is surrounded by a 塀で囲む and バリケードs such as かみそり wire.

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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2016, file photo, heavy equipment is seen at a site where sections of the Dakota Access Pipeline were being buried near the town of St...

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2016, とじ込み/提出する photo, 激しい 器具/備品 is seen at a 場所/位置 where sections of the Dakota 接近 Pipeline were 存在 buried 近づく the town of St. Anthony in Morton 郡, N.D. The Army has 通知するd 議会 Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, that it will 許す the $3.8 billion Dakota 接近 pipeline to cross under a Missouri River 貯蔵所 in North Dakota, 完全にするing the four-明言する/公表する 事業/計画(する) to move North Dakota oil to Illinois. The Army ーするつもりであるs to 許す the crossing under Lake Oahe as 早期に as Wednesday, Feb. 8. The crossing is the final big chunk of work on the pipeline. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune 経由で AP, とじ込み/提出する)

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