Protesters celebrate as Army halts Dakota Access pipeline work

Protesters celebrate as Army halts Dakota Access pipeline work Dissidents celebrate as Army ends Dakota Access pipeline work OCETI SAKOWIN CAMP, N.D. — A day that started with supplications finished with triumph moves Sunday as Native Americans and preservationists here commended the news that President Obama's organization would stop development of the Dakota Access pipeline. In the most significant blow yet to the quite challenged pipeline, the U.S. Armed force Corps of Engineers denied an easement for the pipeline to cross Lake Oahe, a Corps store on the Missouri River in North Dakota. That remained the main challenged part of the 1,172-mile pipeline, which is about finished. In an announcement late Sunday, pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners said it stayed focused on finishing the venture without a reroute. "The White House's order today to the Corps for further deferral is only the most recent in a progression of plain and straightforward political activities," the announcement read, "by an organization which has surrendered the control of law for currying support with a slender and extraordinary political body electorate."