A federal judge has denied an emergency request to delay the process of shutting down the Dakota Access Pipeline while the project’s attorneys appeal the decision in order to keep the oil pipeline running.
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg on Monday ordered the underground oil pipeline to be shut down and emptied by Aug. 5, while the U.S. government conducts an in-depth environmental impact review. The court had previously ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had violated federal environmental law when it granted a permit for an easement to construct a segment of the 1,172-mile pipeline beneath Lake Oahe, a large reservoir behind a dam on the Missouri River.
