Dakota Access Pipeline ordered to shut down

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Hopefully this is permanent but I’m doubtful.

So you like seeing oil being transported by rail?

Pipelines are definitely safer and more ecologically friendly than other ways of transporting oil.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

So you like seeing oil being transported by rail?

Pipelines are definitely safer and more ecologically friendly than other ways of transporting oil.

Just ban oil. Ta-daahhhh! /s

That's what most pipeline haters would like to do, but know would never happen for the foreseeable future.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

So you like seeing oil being transported by rail?

Pipelines are definitely safer and more ecologically friendly than other ways of transporting oil.

Just ban oil. Ta-daahhhh! /s

That's what most pipeline haters would like to do, but know would never happen for the foreseeable future.

Well in this case it was mainly opposed as an act of anti-imperialism and indigenous sovereignty over their land, but ok, sometimes you get good byproducts such as weaning a state off of a limited and damaging fossil fuel.

I'll grant that anti-fossil fuel activists used every progressive cause they could find to try and stop DAPL, but if you think indigenous rights was a prime motivation for non-indigenous opponents of DAPL, I want to know what you're smoking and which hallucinogen it's been spiked with.

Unless this gets successfully appealed, DAPL will probably be shut down until at least 2026.  (I doubt Biden will allow the ACoE to do an honest EIS, and even if he only serves one term, between the time needed to do an EIS and to get DAPL out of mothballs, mid-2026 is the earliest it could safely resume operation.)

In some respects, the upstream fossil fuel industry in the Dakotas is probably glad of this decision, as it gives them a way to get out of contracts to transport oil that right now are losing them money.  So while it sucks for ET in particular, this judge is likely helping the oil industry overall rather than hurting it. So much for sticking it to the man.