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North Dakota Oil Pipeline Prevails Over Environmentalists The Dakota Access Pipeline will not be ordered to shut down while pending review, government lawyers told U.S. District Judge Brian Boasberg on Friday, much to the ire of environmentalists who have long called for the pipeline to be shut down. According to Ben Shifman, a Justice Department Attorney, the government is still reserving the right to shut down the pipeline at any time during the environmental review by the Army Corps of Engineers. That review is not expected to be complete until this time next year. For DAPL, that’s a lot of uncertainty. ....
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Print this article The Biden administration has decided not to order the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline to shut down while it completes an environmental review, dealing a blow to green groups and Native American tribes who had sought to stop it from operating. Lawyers representing multiple tribes challenging the Dakota Access pipeline, along with the Justice Department and pipeline operator Energy Transfer, held a status call with U.S. District Judge Brian Boasberg on Friday, in which government lawyers announced that it would not order a shutdown. Ben Shifman, an attorney for the Justice Department, told the court that the federal government retains the authority to shut down the pipeline at any time while the Army Corps of Engineers finishes its environmental review, which he said would happen by March 2022. ....