Dakota Pipeline Co. Plans To Ignore Stop Work Order And Continue Drilling

12 December 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.”