Engineers Proves Native Americans Were Right about the Dakota Pipeline*

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Native American protest vindicated – Dakota Access Pipeline is illegal. Army Corps of Engineers confirms the company building the pipeline doesn’t have a written easement to build on Corps property.

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Engineers Proves Native Americans Were Right about the Dakota Pipeline*

By Matt Agorist

Earlier this month, a few dozen Native Americans showed up to protest the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile-long pipeline that would cross right through their sacred land. As word spread, however, the few dozen turned into more than 4,000 native Americans. Because of the large turnout, a brief victory ensued for the people after the developers of the four-state oil pipeline agreed to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline until after a federal hearing.

Before the hearing started, however, North Dakota homeland security director Greg Wilz ordered the removal of state-owned trailers and water tanks from the protest encampment, despite the sweltering heat, because of alleged disorderly conduct.

In spite of the government clamping down on them, the protesters remained vigilant. And, on Friday, they saw another victory. The Army Corps of Engineers confirmed that Energy Transfer Partners, the company…

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