Earlier this month, a federal judge stunned the U.S. energy sector with an order to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline. Environmentalists hailed it as the first time a fully operating system had been forced to close by a legal challenge.
Houston's Phillips 66 is selling its 25 percent stake in the Bakken pipeline system, including the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, and more to its master limited partnership business for $1.7 billion.
Dallas pipeline giant Energy Transfer Partners is suing Greenpeace International and other protesters of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in a new effort to go on the offensive against environmentalists.
Billionaire pipeline magnate Kelcy Warren, who just months ago defeated environmentalists to finish his controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, has stepped into the limelight once again -- this time, to defend a natural gas line being built across the eastern U.S.
Native Americans from across the US are holding a protest in Washington DC against the Trump administration and its approval of the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
After months of fighting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault II boarded a plane to Washington to meet with the Trump administration and voice his opposition. Before he had landed, news had broken that the U.S. was clearing the project.
The $3.8 billion Dakota Access crude oil pipeline may start operating June 1, assuming no new obstacles prevent it, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The front doors of the North Dakota’s capitol building were locked today after scores of demonstrators descended on the building to protest against a pipeline project, a local media report said.