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More than five years after protesters joined the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline and staged demonstrations and live-ins at the site in North Dakota, the tribe is far from finished with its fight.
It filed new court documents contending a federal judge was wrong in dismissing the lawsuit it filed last October against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the pipeline project of Energy Transfer Company. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), owned by Energy Transfer, is 1,172 miles long and transports crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois and on to Gulf Coast markets.
The suit, dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg who handled the tribe’s 2016 lawsuit, contended the Army Corps violated federal law by allowing the DAPL to operate without an easement to cross Lake Oahe, a reservoir that borders the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and straddles the North Dakota and South Dakota state line.
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