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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Energy => Topic started by: TomSea on January 22, 2017, 08:08:30 am
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North Dakota Tribe Formally Calls on Pipeline Protesters to Disperse
CANNON BALL, N.D. —
A Sioux tribal council on Saturday formally asked hundreds of protesters to clear out of three camps near its North Dakota reservation used to stage months of sometimes violent protests against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday unanimously passed a resolution calling for the camps to be dismantled, it said on its Facebook page on Saturday. The tribe has been encouraging protesters to go home since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed to an environmental review of the $3.8 billion project in December.
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