“Standing Rock Sioux tribe says Trump is breaking law with Dakota Access order”, 26 January 2017

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has called Donald Trump’s decision to push forward the controversial Dakota Access pipeline “utterly alarming”, and warned the president that rushing through the project would break federal law…Trump signed an executive order instructing the army corps of engineers to “review and approve in an expedited manner” the Dakota Access project...The army corps of engineers is undertaking an environmental impact statement over concerns that the pipeline could contaminate the Standing Rock Sioux’s drinking water at Lake Oahe in North Dakota…Trump’s order asks the army to consider “whether to withdraw” the environmental review, despite the fact it is already under way...David Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock tribe,…has sought a meeting with Trump but has had no response…Trump’s administration has vowed to push through the completion of the…project, as well as the Keystone oil pipeline, in order to create what it claims to be thousands of jobs and spark a domestic “energy revolution”…