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From: Wharf Rat9/8/2016 11:11:23 AM
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Bakken Pipeline Construction Temporarily Halted As Protests Rage

The emergency court hearing followed a weekend of protests that turned violent in North Dakota.

Jon Don Ilone Reed, an Army veteran and member of South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, at an oil pipeline protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota, Aug. 25, 2016. Reed said he fought in Iraq and is now fighting “fighting for our children and our water.” CREDIT: AP/JAMES MACPHERSONA federal judge brokered a temporary agreement in an emergency hearing over the construction of the Bakken pipeline, or Dakota Access pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe agreed to the deal along with the pipeline’s builders, as well as the Army Corps of Engineers. It halts construction on some, but not all, of the 1,172-mile pipeline that would pump oil from the fracked shale deposits in North Dakota to an oil hub in Illinois....

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