The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Smokin Joe on July 07, 2020, 06:24:26 am
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Federal judge orders Dakota Access Pipeline shut down
https://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/federal-judge-orders-dakota-access-pipeline-shut-down/article_2cc387a3-f003-5557-b356-4063123a62ad.html (https://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/federal-judge-orders-dakota-access-pipeline-shut-down/article_2cc387a3-f003-5557-b356-4063123a62ad.html)
The Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down and emptied of oil within 30 days while a lengthy environmental review of the project is conducted, a federal judge ruled Monday.
The move was requested earlier this year by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and three other Sioux tribes in the Dakotas who fear environmental harm from the pipeline and have spent four years in court fighting the project. North Dakota officials have said such a move would have “significant disruptive consequences†for the state, whose oil patch has been hit hard in recent months by falling demand for crude amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Forty percent of the oil produced in the state has been going out on the pipeline. The equivalent of 700 rail cars a day. We will hear the standard whining about the rail transport of crude oil soon. I have little doubt that the same enviroterrorists who were targeting the pipeline will be trying some shenanigans with much easier to sabotage rail transport, even though passenger trains pass over the same rails.
I see this, ultimately as just another Obama Appointee (Boasberg, Washington DC US District Judge) doing his part to wreck the economy. And as for the Standing Rock Tribe, the curses I have for that lot cannot be put upon this page, nor can the contempt be adequately expressed in any language.
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Absolutely ridiculous decision.