Now Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is getting involved in the fight to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, the one that has drawn even Oklahoma Native Americans to North Dakota to protest the line.
This time, Sanders joined three other Democratic Senators in asking President Barack Obama to personally intervene and stop the pipeline that carries a price of $3.8 billion and would carry Bakken oil from North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.
Sanders and the others say they made the request because a federal appeals court denied the Standing Rock Sioux’s motion for a temporary work stoppage within 20 miles of Lake Oahe.
Dallas-based Energy transfer Partners still hopes to complete work on the pipeline by the end of the year. No comment from the White House.
The other Senators are Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dianne Feinstein of California, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
