Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Cruel Winter Could Be First Blow to Protesters' Pipeline Dreams

 

CANNON BALL, N.D. — After the biggest victory in the months-long Dakota Access Pipeline saga, the brutal North Dakota winter showed itself in full force.

The jubilation among the thousands gathered here when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Missouri River, was followed Monday by a day of somber — and cold — reflection.

Protesters and activists — who call themselves "water protectors" — began to come to the realization that what they had won could easily be undone by President-elect Donald Trump.

The business mogul-turned-commander-in-chief supported the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the controversial route proposed by Energy Transfer Partners, according to an aide's memo recently obtained by the Associated Press. 

Source: NBC News  

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