Links to just a single day's news coverage from Midwest Energy News, of the Dakota Access Pipeline, other crude oil pipelines (as well as natural gas pipelines), and their impacts on Native Americans, the climate, etc.:
PIPELINES:
• A federal appeals court orders a halt to construction on another section of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. (Associated Press)
• A tribal leader in Wisconsin says the Dakota Access pipeline should be a concern for all, not just Native Americans. (LaCrosse Tribune)
• A federal judge drops a temporary restraining order against tribal leaders who were sued by the Dakota Access developer. (Associated Press)
• The Dakota Access protest site has created a new school for children and an increasingly organized system to deliver supplies there. (Associated Press)
• Enbridge performs maintenance on an oil pipeline in northern Minnesota after corrosion was discovered on the line’s exterior. (Forum News Service)
OIL AND GAS:
• North Dakota’s oil production outlook for the rest of the year looks poor, officials say. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• An Ohio appeals court says the developer of a natural gas pipeline in Ohio and Michigan can enter private property and conduct land surveys. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)*
COMMENTARY:
• Federal agencies and courts should decide quickly on a framework for an agreement over the Dakota Access pipeline. (Bismarck Tribune)
[*Please note that the largely pro bono attorney for the groups and individuals fighting fracking in all its manifestations in Ohio and Michigan -- from pipelines, to drilling, to wastewater disposal -- is Terry Lodge, Esquire, based in Toledo, Ohio. Lodge also serves as Beyond Nuclear et al.'s largely pro bono attorney in many nuclear power and radioactive waste campaigns in that region, and beyond.]