{"id":280020,"date":"2016-11-19T06:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-another-way-dakota-pipelines-developer-rules-out-rerouting\/"},"modified":"2016-11-19T06:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:38:51","slug":"not-another-way-dakota-pipelines-developer-rules-out-rerouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-another-way-dakota-pipelines-developer-rules-out-rerouting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not another way\u2019: Dakota pipeline\u2019s developer rules out rerouting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dakota Access oil pipeline will not be rerouted, despite mass protests, its developer has said. The Dallas-based company is ready to negotiate with tribal activists, who say that talks won\u2019t make a difference. <\/p>\n

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“There’s not another way. We’re building at that location,”<\/em> Kelcy Warren, the CEO Energy Transfer Partners, told the Associated Press, despite President Barack Obama\u2019s recent indication that the government was looking into alternatives.<\/p>\n

Warren told the new agency that he was ready to sit down with Dave Archambault, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, to talk about the $3.8 billion pipeline and ease their concerns.<\/p>\n

“We already know what he’s going to say \u2014 that this is the cleanest, safest pipeline ever,”<\/em> Archambault told AP. “What he doesn’t know is that this is still an issue for Standing Rock and all indigenous people.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In his interview with PBS Thursday, Warren said that Energy Transfer Partners could not \u201cpromise\u201d<\/em> there would be no leak, but added that \u201cthere is no way there would be any crude contaminate their water supply.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The 1,200-mile-long pipeline would carry 500,000 gallons of crude oil every day from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois.<\/p>\n

Sioux tribe members and environmental activists are concerned that it could pollute nearby water sources and destroy tribal sacred sites.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people have been occupying federally owned land, through which the four-state pipeline would run under a Missouri River reservoir.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to cross the river at that location,”<\/em> Warren told AP, saying that it would be the “least impactful”<\/em> site.<\/p>\n

About 85 percent complete, the pipeline construction has been halted since September due to protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe this is an unnecessary and problematic delay,\u201d<\/em> North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple (R) said<\/a>. \u201cIt does nothing but continue to prolong the difficulty that we have as a state and as counties dealing with this great challenge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Arguing that the delay \u201chas no purpose whatsoever,\u201d<\/em> Dalrymple has called on the US Army Corps of Engineers to speed up its review of the issue of allowing pipeline opponents to camp without a permit on its property.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers informed the Standing Rock Tribe and the corporations behind the pipeline that \u201cadditional discussion and analysis are warranted\u201d<\/em> about the government granting an easement for construction on federal land.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile these discussions are ongoing, construction on or under Corps land bordering Lake Oahe cannot occur because the Army has not made a final decision on whether to grant an easement,\u201d<\/em> the Interior Department said in a statement. In July, the Army Corps of Engineers granted the developer the permits needed for construction, but then said it needed more analysis given the tribe\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n