Trump signs an executive order on the Keystone XL pipeline in the Oval Office
of the White House in Washington in 2017. Native American tribes in Montana and
South Dakota say the Trump administration unlawfully approved the Keystone XL oil
pipeline without considering potential damage to cultural sites.
Native Americans say
Trump illegally approved oil pipeline from Canada
Associated
Press
September 10,
2018
Updated September
10, 2018 12:00pm
BILLINGS, Mont.
>>
Native American tribes in Montana and South Dakota sued the Trump
administration today, claiming it approved an oil pipeline from Canada without
considering potential damage to cultural sites from spills and construction.
Attorneys for the
Rosebud Sioux tribe and Fort Belknap Indian Reservation asked U.S. District
Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana, to rescind the permit for the
Keystone XL pipeline, issued last year by the U.S. State Department.
The tribes argue Trump brushed aside their rights and put their members at risk
when he reversed President Barack Obama’s rejection of the $8 billion
TransCanada Corp. project.
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