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Protests ended on February 23, 2017 when National Guard and law enforcement officers evicted the last remaining protesters. The pipeline runs from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to southern Illinois, crossing beneath the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, as well as under part of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
The pipeline is owned by Dakota Access, LLC, controlled by Energy Transfer Partners, with minority interests from Phillips 66, and affiliates of Enbridge and Marathon Petroleum. Protests against the pipeline occurred from 2016 to 2017, organized by those opposing its construction, including the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Photos of the pipeline protests. Last week, protesters and law enforcement clashed as police swept demonstrators from a separate camp on private property and more than 140 protesters were arrested.
The Stop Line 3 protests are an ongoing series of demonstrations in the U.S. state of Minnesota against the expansion of Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline along a new route. The new route was completed in September 2021, and was operational on 1 October 2021. [ 5 ]
A court fight over whether the federal government should cover North Dakota's $38 million in costs of responding to the lengthy protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline years ago near its ...
The replacement pipeline has been completed in Canada, [5] Wisconsin, [6] North Dakota, [7] and Minnesota. [8] Permitting and construction of the new pipeline has been met with resistance from Native American communities and climate justice groups. [9] Despite protests, the expansion was operational by 1 October, 2021. [10]
Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of North Dakota's lawsuit against the federal government for the costs of responding to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the culmination of an ...
The pipeline construction company claimed they hired the security company because the protests had not been peaceful. [33] The Morton County Sheriff, Kyle Kirchmeier, described the September 3, 2016, protest, saying protesters crossed onto private property and attacked security guards with "wooden posts and flag poles."