Obama administration overrules judge, halts work on North Dakota pipeline after violent protests

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Washington Times:

The Obama administration took the drastic step Friday of temporarily blocking work on a North Dakota pipeline after violent clashes between protesters and security guards, overruling a federal judge’s order allowing work to proceed.

In a joint statement, the Justice Department, Interior Department, Army Corps of Engineers and Department of the Army halted the Dakota Access Pipeline pending a review to determine whether the administration “will need to reconsider any of its previous decisions” approving the project.

The statement was issued within hours of a decision by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg denying the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s request to delay construction, ruling that tribe had failed to show that the project would damage cultural or historic sites.

The North Dakota Petroleum Council blasted the administration’s intervention, describing it as “yet another flagrant overreach by federal government and this administration” that will “only allow this rancor to continue.”

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Big load of crap. ND needs to get that oil/gas to market without putting it all on Buffet's trains.

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Big load of crap. ND needs to get that oil/gas to market without putting it all on Buffet's trains.

 

Silly question - How does the Administration overrule a Judge? Oh - never mind. That's routine?

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API Chief on Obama Halting Dakota Access Pipeline: ‘We No Longer Honor the Rule of Law in the United States’

 

(CNSNews.com)— Jack Gerard, CEO and president of the trade association American Petroleum Institution (API), said on Thursday that President Barack Obama’s decision to override a federal judge’s ruling to allow the Dakota Access Pipeline construction to go forward in South Dakota violates “the rule of law.”

 

“The reaction on the part of the administration is really stunning and makes people raise the fundamental question that we no longer honor the rule of law in the United States,” Gerard told CNSNews.com in an exclusive interview on Capitol Hill.

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/api-chief-obama-halting-dakota-access-pipeline-we-no-longer-honor-rule-law