Energy Transfer Partners says it hopes to resume construction soon on a portion of the Dakota Access crude-oil pipeline, located on private lands east and west of Lake Oahe in North Dakota.
Work on a section of the $3.7- billion, 1,172-mile pipeline between North Dakota and Illinois has been under a temporary pause due to a Sept. 9 Obama administration decision that the Army Corps of Engineers must review its previous National Environmental Policy Act-related decisions for the site. The project has been the focus of high-profile protests from members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which opposes the project. The tribe had sought an injunction to stop the project’s construction. But on Oct. 9, a federal appeals court denied the tribe’s request.