Dakota Access Pipeline Temporarily Halted In Response To ProtestsBy Derrick Broze Cannonball, North Dakota After twoweeksof protests and arrests at the site of construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, local law enforcementannounced that the pipeline would be temporarily put on hold. In a press conference on Thursday,Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirschmeier explained that the decision was related to safety concerns. NPR Reports: A spokesman for the company that is building the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners,told The Wall Street Journal that construction has been halted at the protest site ahead of a court hearing next Wednesday, but that it continues elsewhere. In July, the environmental group Earthjusticefiled a lawsuit on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, seeking an injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which authorized the pipelines construction. The construction and operation of the pipeline, as authorized by the Corps, threatens the Tribes environmental and economic well-being, and would damage and destroy sites of great historic, religious, and cultural significance to the tribe, the lawsuit states. Last weekprotesters were arrested while attempting to block construction of the pipeline.The protestershave come from all around the country in support of theSacred Stone Camp, which formed in response to the Army Corps of Engineers granting approval permits for construction.The growing protests led North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple to issue anemergency declaration for southwest and south central North Dakota. The protesters, or protectors as they refer to themselves, are concerned that the pipelinewill inevitably have accidental spillswhich will poison the local water supply.The projectis set to cross the Missouri River not far from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. TheDAPL, alternatively known as the Bakken Pipeline,is owned by Houston, Texas based corporation Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., which created the subsidiary Dakota Access LLC. The pipelinewill stretch 1,172 miles upon completion and transport crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois. In response to the protesters concerns, Dakota Access LLC said the pipeline would include safety measures such as leak detection equipment, and workers monitoring the pipeline remotely in Texas could close block valves on it within three minutes if a breach is detected. As The Bismarck Tribune reported, Dakota Access LLC, a partner of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, countered the Standing Rock lawsuit earlier this week by filing a lawsuit against several protesters, alleging threats to the safety of construction workers and law enforcement. The media has attempted to paint the protectors as violent and made allegations about the presence of pipe bombs. The allegations have not been confirmed and have been adamantly denied by the Sacred Stone Camp. Despite the temporary halting of activitynear the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, construction on the Dakota Access pipeline continues elsewhere. As of Saturday afternoon the Sacred Stone Camp was still full of supporters from different nations across the United States. The organization Up To Us is also calling for supporters to attend the injunction hearing in Washington D.C. on August 24. The hearing takes place at the U.S. District Court at 333 Constitution Avenue NW in D.C. from 1 to 5 pm. Stay tuned to selfnews Post for updates on the protests and the hearing. I will be reporting live from the Sacred Stone Camp from August 22 to 25. Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist and liberty activist. He is the Lead Investigative Reporter for selfnewsPost.com and the founder of the TheConsciousResistance.com. Follow him on Twitter. Derrick is the author of two books: The Conscious Resistance: Reflections on Anarchy and Spirituality and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion. Derrick is available for interviews. Please contact Derrick@activistpost.com This article may be freely reposted in part or in full with author attribution and source link. Image Credit The Indigenous/Native American Holocaust marches on all for the ever uncontrollable greed of the ZioNazis, towards their satanist Lucifers NWO! The Native Americans/Canadas First Nation Peoples must unite es You got that just right. Thanks RB! Hilarious! So a pipeline company is run by Lucifer? Are youre sure its not the Big Bad Wolf, instead? Because destroying the Earth is nothing like that. Its just Business. Its not just about business! See how the ZioNazis control the Wezz! At How Mossad Controls Our Political Parties, by Christopher Bollyn, 25 October 2008! Thus it means Central ISra*l Agency; and at Likud Becomes a Regional Member of the European Parliament, By Maidhc Cathail | CounterPunch | April 27, 2016!.Thus it means Central I(Sra*l) Agency! And see the organ traffickers, who are behind Catholic Genocide in Mexico; at Zeta gang connected to U.S. Special Forces/Mossad, By Wayne Madsen, March 10, 2011! So FTP is destroying the earth? Prove it!! You sound like a 12 year old. You sound like a Capitalist Sociopath. Get off your racist high horse! You know exactly what I see no mention of whose the land the pipeline will access, so I have to assume it doesnt belong to any tribe. Therefore this groups lawsuit is weak and easily dismissed. So you are labelling anyone resisting your corporate greed as pagan! You need to be civilized! They owned the land? Where are their deeds proving such?? .Corporate greed for just wanting to move their product to market? I guess you prefer rail cars that crash and explode. Where are their deeds proving such?? That is just sad. You sound like a sociopath juvenile that needs to be locked up for good for trying to erase the history, rights and identity of the original Indigenous owners of North America! How do you sleep with all your evil racist/fascist greedy corporate self, you mooron?! Trouble Making Pagans And you aint seen nothing yet, You greedy corporate wall-street Industrial war loving capitalists- You and yours-your time is coming. Every inch of American soil is of the Natives, it is their birth right which the Europeans took from them with force and murder and I am ashamed to be European descendant. Look man. You cant change the past. None of yall/us/them can change anything about it. Yes, my ancestors assimilated on our own land and took on Spanish surnames, the ones that didnt fight. But if it wasnt for your ancestors and the rest of the European ancestry coming here I wouldnt have my American-Swedish wife and 4 yr old son. So thanks for coming! Now drink a beer and enjoy life bro! Way too much heartache around.peace Trying to justify ZioNazi Western GENOCIDE do you?! I wonder if the people that blindly oppose pipeline projects feel hypocritical every time they put gasoline in their car. Do they think that gasoline just magically appears at the pump; with no exploration, drilling, processing, refining, and with transportation required in every step of supplying this fuel. Or if they realize that almost every product they purchase, contains a transportation component associated with supplying that product. Do they not realize that America is required to purchase over 20-million barrels of oil a day from foreign countries to meet Americas demand for fuel, to keep our country operating and our economy strong. The US currently consumes more than 20 million barrels of oil per day over what is currently being produced in America. America currently has over 2 million miles of safely functioning pipelines as a part of our essential infrastructure. Oil has to be moved once it is pumped. If not by pipeline, our only choices are over-the-road trucking, and/or rail. Both of these methods result in increased diesel air-pollution, increased costs, and increased potential for spills. Lets deal with facts, and not blind ignorant hysteria. Pipelines are the obvious intelligent choice, and necessary for our country!!! Hate the real truths and threatening me, do you?! Coward mooron! You obviously were born without a brain and therefore youre not worth my time. Brainless coward! 