The company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is bleeding tens of millions of dollars, according to a lawyer representing the pipeline. The $3.8 billion DAPL is losing $20 million every day the project is delayed, David Debold, an attorney representing Dakota Access, told District Court for the Districtof Columbia’s Judge James Boasberg Friday. He asserted that the “final decision on the right-of-way was made on July 25,” and requested Boasberg expedite final approval of the [Read more]
Obama’s Decision On Dakota Pipeline Coming Sooner Than Expected
The Obama administration will issue a sooner-than-expected decision on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) before the levers of executive power shift to President-elect Donald Trump. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Friday that President Barack Obama is moving up his decision on a key easement allowing the pipeline’s developers to dig under Lake Ohae to complete the nearly $4 billion project. Obama momentarily stopped pipeline construction in September, arguing that the government needed [Read more]
Dakota Protesters Are Facing A New Foe: A Donald Trump Presidency
Protesters’ recent successes fighting the Dakota oil pipeline could come to a screeching halt once President-elect Donald Trump moves into the White House. Trump is no doubt a proponent of building pipelines. He dumped nearly $1 million into Energy Transfer Partners, the company constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline, which was disclosed in Trump’s financial filing to the Federal Election Commission. He has also floated the idea of reviving the Keystone XL line, a Canadian pipeline [Read more]
Eco-Terrorists Suspected Of Causing $2 Million In Arson Damage At Dakota Pipeline Site
The FBI launched an investigation Monday into a rash of fires along an oil pipeline owned by the Dakota Access Pipeline. The fires damaged various bulldozers and earth-moving equipment. Jasper County Sheriff’s Office estimated the fire caused $2,000,000 in damages. The equipment was operated by one of the companies contracted by the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Further investigations indicate the fires were intentionally set. FBI on scene investigating "intentionally set" [Read more]
Lawmakers Sign Fact-Free Letter Urging Obama To Stop Dakota Pipeline
Nearly 20 members of Congress sent a letter riddled with various factual errors to the White House Thursday pressuring the Obama administration to put a permanent stop to a hotly contested oil pipeline in North Dakota. The letter was co-signed by 19 lawmakers and directly calls on President Barack Obama to withdraw federal permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline “like you did with the rejection of the Keystone Pipeline.” It was signed by the likes of Democrats Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, Rep. [Read more]
Neil Young’s Latest Anti-Oil Song Is Even Worse Than The Last One
Folk singer Neil Young released a song and music video protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. “There’s a battle raging on the sacred land/ Our brothers and sisters have to take a stand,” Young croons in the video while driving around in what appears to be a gas-powered vehicle. “Against us now for what we all been doing/ On the sacred land there’s a battle brewing.” The 1960s castoff even took a few pokes at the news media in the video, singing, “I wish somebody would share the news,” [Read more]
North Dakota Oil Pipeline Rerouted Extensively To Please Protester Demands
The company building the hotly contested North Dakota oil pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, went to extraordinary lengths to avoid trampling Native American ritual sites. Cultural surveys conducted in North Dakota determined that Energy Transfer Partners’ initial pipeline had 149 eligible sites, with 91 of them containing stone features considered sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, a group of Native Americans claiming the completed Dakota Access pipeline will violate its ancestral land. [Read more]
Anti-Oil Pipeline Protest Turns Violent, As Protesters Clash With Security Officials
A protest of the multi-state, $3.8 million oil pipeline turned violent Saturday when members of a Native American tribe in North Dakota and private security forces clashed as construction crews began work on the project. Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey told reporters four security guards not affiliated with law enforcement and two guard dogs were injured as several hundred protesters living in the Standing Rock Sioux reservation confronted pipeline workers at the [Read more]
China Says Its Massive Oil Rigs In North Sea Are ‘Strategic Weapons’
China is now the largest oil operator in the North Sea thanks in part to huge tax breaks by Britain, despite the communist country claiming the operations are “strategic weapons.” The country’s oil expansion in the area means that Britain dolled out nearly $2.6 billion in tax breaks to one of China’s communist-run oil company, according to a report Tuesday by The Times. The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) operates two of the North Sea’s biggest oilfields. One CNOOC-owned company, [Read more]
Are Greens Having Second Thoughts About Anti-Fracking Ballot Measures?
Wealthy green activists are staying far away from an activist-generated campaign to force anti-fracking measures on Colorado’s November ballot. Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, who spent $8.5 million in Colorado during the 2014 election, has not donated any money to the anti-fracking campaign currently being pushed in the Centennial State. Similarly, the League of Conservation Voters’ Colorado has made complimentary comments about one of the ballot initiatives but, like Styer, is not [Read more]