"Judge Won’t Halt Dakota Access Pipeline Construction", 13 Feb 2017

A federal judge on Monday rejected requests from Native American tribes to suspend construction on the final section of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Reuters reports.  U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg’s ruling allows Energy Transfer Partners to work on a crossing beneath a North Dakota reservoir while there are ongoing lawsuits against the oil project by Native American tribes.  In rejecting the request for a temporary restraining order, the judge said the tribes failed to show that the pipeline posed immediate, irreparable harm...“We’re disappointed with today’s ruling denying a temporary restraining order against the Dakota Access Pipeline, but we are not surprised.  We know this fight is far from over,” Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and attorney with the Lakota People’s Law Project, said in a statement.  The United States Army Corps of Engineers had given Energy Transfer Partners permission last week to work on this section near the Lake Oahe reservoir...The Corps argued in its filing that a restraining order was unwarranted because the tribes have time to continue with lawsuits before oil flows in the pipeline...