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Dakota Access pipeline: judge rules environmental survey was inadequate
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Dakota Access pipeline: judge rules environmental survey was inadequate
In what’s being hailed a ‘significant victory’ for pipeline’s opponents, a judge said he would consider whether operations must halt until assessment is redone
Associated Press Wednesday 14 June 2017 22.03 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/14/dakota-access-pipeline-environmental-study-inadequate
A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, ruling Wednesday that the US Army Corps of Engineers did not adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline passes under the Missouri River.
US district judge James Boasberg said in a 91-page decision that the corps failed to take into account how a spill might affect “fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline’s effects are likely to be highly controversial”.
The judge said the army must redo its environmental analysis in certain sections and he would consider later whether the pipeline must halt operations in the meantime. A status conference is scheduled for next week.
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Excerpt. Read more at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/14/dakota-access-pipeline-environmental-study-inadequate
Fishrrman:
A little late for that now.
Appeal this ruling, pronto, and "push it upwards" as far as necessary.
Just_Victor:
So, the Army Corp of Engineers environmental impact study didn't adequately consider how a spill might effect "environmental justice?"
What does that even mean?
Smokin Joe:
--- Quote from: Just_Victor on June 16, 2017, 02:23:37 am ---So, the Army Corp of Engineers environmental impact study didn't adequately consider how a spill might effect "environmental justice?"
What does that even mean?
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It means the liberals didn't like the outcome.
The pipeline is 90 feet below the bottom of the lake. In a tunnel drilled for the purpose of keeping the pipeline away from the water for the foreseeable future, even if the dam was breached and the river back in its original channel. Short of nuclear war or a cosmic impact or a liberal judge, it should never have a problem getting oil safely through the pipe in the tunnel.
If the first two happen, we'll have other problems to contend with. The latter is the greatest danger to oil moving safely through the pipeline, because they'll shut it down even if there is nothing wrong.
Joe Wooten:
This judge was appointed by 0bama and confirmed by every republican in the senate. It was a 96-0 vote, so maybe 4 did not vote for him but were absent or did not vote.
--- Quote ---On June 17, 2010, President Barack Obama formally nominated Boasberg to the District Court for the District of Columbia.[8] Boasberg was confirmed on March 14, 2011 by a vote of 96 ayes to 0 nays.[12] He received his commission on March 17, 2011.[9]
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