Post by Logan on Jun 21, 2016 2:47:06 GMT -6
State officials have lifted a stop-work order on the Bakken oil pipeline in northwest Iowa where tribal officials had objected to disrupting sacred American Indian land that includes burial grounds.
Texas-based Dakota Access LLC, which is building the pipeline, has been granted an amendment to its sovereign lands construction permit by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, DNR spokesperson Kevin Baskins confirmed.
Instead of digging a trench for a route through the Big Sioux River Wildlife Management Area in Lyon County, the pipeline will be located about 85 feet underground by using special boring equipment, he said.
"The bottom line is that they will go around the area by going underneath it," Baskins said.
Read more: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/20/bakken-pipeline-run-under-sacred-tribal-site/86155990/
Texas-based Dakota Access LLC, which is building the pipeline, has been granted an amendment to its sovereign lands construction permit by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, DNR spokesperson Kevin Baskins confirmed.
Instead of digging a trench for a route through the Big Sioux River Wildlife Management Area in Lyon County, the pipeline will be located about 85 feet underground by using special boring equipment, he said.
"The bottom line is that they will go around the area by going underneath it," Baskins said.
Read more: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/20/bakken-pipeline-run-under-sacred-tribal-site/86155990/