"Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Spread, Firms Fight Back"

"Demonstrators fanned out across North America on Tuesday to demand the U.S. government halt or reroute the Dakota Access pipeline as the companies behind the controversial project asked a federal court for permission to complete it.

In what organizers said were the largest demonstrations to date against the pipeline, thousands of people rallied outside Army Corps of Engineers offices, banks and energy companies, a day after the Obama administration delayed granting a permit needed to finish the project. There were arrests in North Dakota, where the most heated protests took place.

The $3.7 billion Dakota Access project has drawn opposition from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe as well as environmental activists who say it could pollute water supplies and destroy sacred historic tribal sites. Demonstrators fanned out across North America on Tuesday to demand the U.S. government halt or reroute the Dakota Access pipeline as the companies behind the controversial project asked a federal court for permission to complete it."

Liz Hampton reports for Reuters November 15, 2016.

SEE ALSO:

"U.N. Officials Denounce ‘Inhuman’ Treatment Of Native American Pipeline Protesters" (Washington Post)

"Dakota Pipeline Operator Goes To Court After Government Delays Construction" (Guardian)

"Trump's Election Overshadows Energy Pipeline Protests Around The U.S." (NPR)

"Trump's Election Overshadows Energy Pipeline Protests Around The U.S." (KXAN Austin)

"Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Take To Downtown Yakima" (Yakima Herald)

"Nationwide Protests Against Dakota Oil Pipeline As Builder Seeks Key OK" (CBS News)

"Scores Arrested in Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Nationwide" (NBC News)