Dakota Pipeline Protests Rise on Hope Project Is ‘Keystone-ed’
- Senator Bernie Sanders speaks in Washington on "Day of Action"
- Project completion could be delayed until first-quarter 2017
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The Dakota Access Pipeline has been stalled by the White House. Now protesters want to make sure it’s killed.
As construction on a segment of the controversial project remains frozen, critics are escalating efforts to ensure the Dakota line meets the same fate as the last major pipeline that drew the intervention of President Obama. He rejected TransCanada Corp.’s cross-border Keystone XL pipeline last year, citing environmental concerns, after more than seven years of debate and protests.