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Federal judge dismisses Standing Rock’s latest lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline • South Dakota Searchlight

Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate Nov. 1, 2023, ahead of a public hearing in Bismarck on the draft environmental impact statement. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)A federal judge dismissed the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeking to shutter the Dakota Access Pipeline, finding that the tribe must wait until the Army Corps finishes a key environmental study to bring anothe…

Federal judge dismisses Standing Rock lawsuit against Army Corps of Engineers over DAPL

WASHINGTON — Calling allegations made by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe "confusing and contradictory" and saying their lawsuit was "prematurely filed," the chief judge of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. on Friday, March 28, granted a request by the defendants in the case, including the state of North Dakota, to dismiss it. The lawsuit, filed against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in October, argued that the Dakota Access Pipeline was op…

Judge dismisses Standing Rock lawsuit to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KXNET) — A U.S. District judge Friday dismissed a lawsuit by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline while an environmental review is in progress. North Dakota had filed a motion to dismiss the suit. In his ruling, Judge James Boasberg wrote, "Although the Corps has not yet finished the EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] required by the previous Order or issued a fresh easement, the Tribe is alre…

Judge strikes down tribe’s lawsuit to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline

WASHINGTON – Federal Court Judge James Boasberg grants the state of North Dakota’s motion to dismiss the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s latest lawsuit to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline. Boasberg ruled the tribe couldn’t show it would suffer irreparable harm from the pipeline saying there’s a low likelihood of a spill. The judge says for four years the pipeline has allowed oil to flow from North Dakota to Southern Illinois without an easement …

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Construction Techniques and Protecting the Pipeline from Earthquake

When the original engineers sat down to design the pipeline, federal geologists and environmentalists noted that unique obstacles, including permafrost and earthquakes, would challenge the idea that the pipeline.