ALERT: Dakota Pipeline Co. Just Responded To Stop Work Order, And It’s Terrible News
ByColin TaylorPosted on December 5, 2016
While many are cheering the Army Corps of Engineers’s decision to refuse an easement to Energy Transfer Partners and halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, it would appear the battle is far from over.
The blinding arrogance of American fossil fuel corporations was on full display as the Energy Transfer Partners issued a defiant statement to the government declaring their intention to continue the pipeline as planned and lambasting the Obama administration for what they saw as a “political decision.”
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL) announced that the Administration’s statement today that it would not at this time issue an “easement” to Dakota Access Pipeline is a purely political action – which the Administration concedes when it states it has made a “policy decision” – Washington code for a political decision. This is nothing new from this Administration, since over the last four months the Administration has demonstrated by its action and inaction that it intended to delay a decision in this matter until President Obama is out of office.
The White House’s directive today to the Corps for further delay is just the latest in a series of overt and transparent political actions by an administration which has abandoned the rule of law in favor of currying favor with a narrow and extreme political constituency.
As stated all along, ETP and SXL are fully committed to ensuring that this vital project is brought to completion and fully expect to complete construction of the pipeline without any additional rerouting in and around Lake Oahe. Nothing this Administration has done today changes that in any way.
Indian Country Today‘s Ruth Hopkins asserts that the company believes the “language used by Army Corps Of Engineers makes their statement purely political and not legally binding” and warns that they are more than likely willing to begin illegally drilling, based on their past behavior.
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