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Lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the builders of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), pressed the company's case for federal courts to allow it to finish the job and drill under Lake Oahe in a hearing on Friday, December 9.
Of course the pipeline folks have not given up. Billions of dollars are at stake. However, the pipeline is currently losing 20 million dollars per week due to contract obligations. Oil was supposed to start flowing on Jan 1, but that clearly will not happen.
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In what was surely a disappointment for ETP, Boasberg, however, gave notice that he would render a decision in February. He delivered timelines for the submission of briefs from the federal government, Dakota Access and the two tribal nations involved in the case, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe needs to file its brief by January 6, as does the Army Corps.
In short the Judge is not going to give an answer in time for more losses to kick in on January 1. I've seen some speculation that enough loss will pile up so that some of the backers will want out, but wouldn't that be making decisions on sunk costs? The pipeline is clearly going to make money if completed.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
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