Dakota Access Pipeline
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The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is an 1,172-mile-long pipeline designed to transport shale oil from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to Patoka, Illinois. Construction was completed in April 2017, and the pipeline began operation in June 2017.1
The project faced significant opposition, primarily from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who argued that the pipeline threatened their water supply and sacred lands, particularly near the Missouri River. Protests, which began in 2016, drew thousands of supporters and involved confrontations with law enforcement. While the Obama administration initially halted construction, President Trump reversed this decision, allowing it to be completed. The pipeline was later shut down by a federal court order in July 2020, pending an environmental review.21
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Donald TrumpEnvironmental policy…approval and completion of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines, both of which had been blocked by the Obama administration on environmental grounds. In February Trump signed legislation to block an Interior Department rule that would have restricted the dumping of toxic mining waste into streams and other…
Read More…approval and completion of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines, both of which had been blocked by the Obama administration on environmental grounds. In February Trump signed legislation to block an Interior Department rule that would have restricted the dumping of toxic mining waste into streams and other…
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United StatesScuttling U.S. participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, reconsidering the Keystone XL pipeline, and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement…in 2015—as well as the Dakota Access Pipeline, the completion of which entailed construction of a section cutting across part of the Missouri River that would potentially endanger the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and which had been halted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pending…
Read More…in 2015—as well as the Dakota Access Pipeline, the completion of which entailed construction of a section cutting across part of the Missouri River that would potentially endanger the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and which had been halted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pending…
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