The Army Corps of Engineers has given final approval and granted a permit in Iowa to the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Project. Earlier the Iowa Utilities Board signed off on the project for Energy Transfer Partners of Texas to ship crude oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa into Illinois. Bold Iowa Director Ed Fallon says now his group and ICCI are trying to get President Obama’s attention to stop the project.
He says both his group and ICCI as well as Native American leaders will do whatever they can to halt the project including engaging in civil disobedience.
Fallon says there are many similarities between the Bakken project and the Keystone project that attempted to ship Canadian tar sands crude oil through Nebraska that was stopped by President Obama.
This week’s Army Corps of Engineer approval allows the pipeline construction to go over 60 water crossings and cover 1,168 miles.
