Court Halts Dakota Access Pipeline Shutdown As Legal Fight Goes Forward

Sunset near a protest camp outside of the Lakota Sioux reservation of Standing Rock, North Dakota, in December 2016.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Sunset near a protest camp outside of the Lakota Sioux reservation of Standing Rock, North Dakota, in December 2016.The Dakota Access Pipeline may continue to pump crude oil through South Dakota after a federal appellate court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a shutdown ordered by a lower court that was to begin next month.that will be in effect at least through next Thursday while the pipeline's operator, Energy Transfer LP, and its opponents file briefs.

The company has been fighting over the project for years with environmentalists and Native American tribes, under whose land a small portion of the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile North Dakota-to-Illinois pipeline runs. "The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion," the court said in the order.

GAIN Coalition, a consortium of businesses, trade associations and labor groups that supports the pipeline, called Tuesday's temporary stay"a key step forward in reaffirming the Dakota Access Pipeline's critical role in the American energy infrastructure network."Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe contend a part of the pipeline that runs beneath Lake Oahe could contaminate the reservation's drinking water and sacred lands.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

'The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,' the court said in the order.

Oh yes, lets end or energy independence, and let OPEC nations control us again. That was great paying $3.50+++ per gallon during previous administration.

Bummer for you.

why do we even have lower courts if higher courts will just do the political bidding

Stupid apple court!

Why should they not stop pumping while it is still pending?

Leave the first people alone. It is their land, respect it.😕😕😕😡

No!!! Asswipes. That’s my golden goose Damn it

Because they already paid everyone off

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And it begins...

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This is why McConnell packed the courts. Let the corruption spread!

Hooray for anti-progress. There's nothing more American than living in the past, rather than learning from it.

Horrible setback.

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