BREAKING: DAKOTA PIPELINE OIL COMPANY OPENLY VOWS TO DEFY ARMY CORPS ORDER IN STANDING ROCK

Balking at an earlier decision by the Army Corps of Engineers, Energy Transfer Partners – the company responsible for constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline – says the denial of an easement necessary to drill under the Missouri River is of no consequence for its plans to complete the project.
According to a statement from Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, which is acquiring ETP in a merger:
‘As stated all along, ETP and SXL are fully committed to ensuring that this vital project is brought to completion and fully expect to complete construction of the pipeline without any additional rerouting in and around Lake Oahe. Nothing this Administration has done today changes that in any way.’
In short, ETP will complete the Dakota Access Pipeline – no matter what the federal government says.
Earlier on Sunday, celebrations erupted over the Army Corps’ announcement the permitting necessary for the Dakota Access Pipeline to pass beneath the Missouri River’s Lake Oahe reservoir would not be granted – a decision some perceived would have direct implications for the future of the project.
Leery of such official decisions after a string of disappointments, however, many water protectors immediately questioned whether ETP CEO Kelcy Warren had contingency plans to ensure completion of the pipeline. Considering the lengths ETP has undertaken with the Dakota Access Pipeline – even justifying abhorrently brutal policing against unarmed protectors – news the project will proceed unhindered hardly came as a shock. ETP states:

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on DECEMBER 6, 2016.