<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of the Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/tribe-files-lawsuit-over-pipeline/article_38080995-0680-5e53-9ee5-19eab963b82a.html#utm_source=bismarcktribune.com&utm_campaign=%2Femail-updates%2Fbreaking%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=6018563F5ADE416EB6BC5DE029040538E8428A87">http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/tribe-files-lawsuit-over-pipeline/article_38080995-0680-5e53-9ee5-19eab963b82a.html#utm_source=bismarcktribune.com&utm_campaign=%2Femail-updates%2Fbreaking%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=6018563F5ADE416EB6BC5DE029040538E8428A87</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 50px; margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-family: Hind, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Tribe files lawsuit over pipeline</h1><div> </div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the Dakota Access Pipeline</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The tribe, represented by Earthjustice, alleges the corps violated the National Historic Preservation Act and other laws, after the agency issued final permits this week for the <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1,172-mile </span>crude oil pipeline stretching from North Dakota to Illinois.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The complaint, filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, says the corps effectively wrote off the tribe’s concerns and ignored the pipeline’s impacts to sacred sites and culturally important landscapes. The pipeline travels through the tribe’s ancestral lands and passes within half a mile of its current reservation.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The corps puts our water and the lives and livelihoods of many in jeopardy,” Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II said in a statement. “We have laws that require federal agencies to consider environmental risks and protection of Indian historic and sacred sites. But the Army Corps has ignored all those laws and fast-tracked this massive project just to meet the pipeline’s aggressive construction schedule.”</span></p><div id="video-ad-asset-container" class="p402_hide" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 1.5s; -webkit-transition: max-height 1.5s;"><div class="video-responsive-ad video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-paused vjs-controls-disabled vjs-user-inactive" id="video-ad-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding: 30px 0px 301.390625px; vertical-align: middle; -webkit-user-select: none; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 20px;"><video id="video-ad-asset_html5_api" class="vjs-tech" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 535.828125px; height: 331.390625px;"></video><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="vjs-text-track-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; position: absolute; bottom: 4em; left: 1em; right: 1em;"></div><div id="ima-ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; top: 0px; position: absolute; width: 536px; height: 331px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe src="http://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.137.0_en.html#goog_1477516060" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; opacity: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"></iframe></span></div></div><div class="vjs-touch-overlay" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; z-index: 5; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; cursor: pointer;"></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The corps’ approval of an easement allows the Energy Transfer Partners, the company developing Dakota Access, to dig the pipeline under the Missouri River, just upstream of the reservation and the tribe’s drinking water supply. The tribe says an oil spill at this site would "constitute an existential threat to the tribe’s culture and way of life."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“There have been shopping malls that have received more environmental review and tribal consultation than this massive crude oil pipeline,” Jan Hasselman, an Earthjustice attorney, said in a statement. “Pipelines spill and leak—its not a matter of if but when. Construction will destroy sacred and historically significant sites. We need to take a time out and ensure that the Corps follows the law before rushing ahead with permits.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite objections by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other organizations, construction of the pipeline has already begun in areas not under corps authority.</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>