Bismarck, ND – On Wednesday, a federal judge said the state of North Dakota was worth about $ 20 million to respond to the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline in 28 and 28 – the state won for the state in a multidimensional effort to recover the expenditure from the Federal government.
The state filed a case in 2019 asking for $ 38 million for protest policing. Sometimes the chaos protests over the Pipeline’s Missouri River, overcome the high stream of the tribe’s reservation, attracted international attention to the opposition to the Standing Rock Siax Tribe. The tribe has long opposed the pipeline, fearing that an oil spreads to pollute its water supply.
A trial began for several weeks in early 2021 in the Federal Court of Bismarck, the capital of the state. The former governor of the testimony testified to Doug Bergo, who took over on December 25 during the protest, and Jack Dalrimpol, whose administration reacted during the first months of the protest.
US District Judge Daniel Trainer US Army Corps of Engineers demanded all the demands of the state and more than $ 2.5 million is responsible to the state.
The judge writes: “Bottom line: There was a compulsory method in the United States, it did not follow that procedure, and the law was damaged. The law allowed the loss to compensate for this loss. More than that, the rules of the law should be responsible for the United States for the United States for the United States, not to confirm the role of the United States.” “
Thousands of people set up and showed the camp against the pipeline near the crossing for several months. As a result of hundreds of arrests. Sometimes violent clashes occurred between protesters and law enforcement officers. Law enforcement officials across the state and region responded to the protest.
“It was a violent, illegal protest. And ‘protest’ is a gentle word,” North Dakota Attorney Drew Raigley said before the trial last year.
The protest camps were cleared on February 27. An attorney in the state said the protests ended in more than seven months in response to the agencies, so 761 were arrested and needed a four -day cleanup of the camp to remove several million pound trash.
“Although the illegal protests were increasing before everyone’s eyes and the loss and the dangers were so clear, the federal government refused to provide assistance and the camp refused to apply legal obligations to the people who were camping,” said Raigley.
The Atornists on behalf of the government said during the trial that the US Army Corps of Engineers officials gave reasonablely limited alternatives to “disposing of them” and the state’s demands “high”. The government asked the judge to find the lack of legal jurisdiction to demand the state, that the state did not prove its claim and not to harm.
The pipeline has been transporting oil since June 2017. Many state government officials and industrial leaders support the pipeline as an important infrastructure in the country’s number 3 oil producing state. The pipeline carries about 5% of the daily oil production in the United States.
In 2017, the pipeline company, energy transfer, has donated $ 15 million to help cut the feedback costs. In the same year, the US Justice Department has given the State 10 million grants to pay the response. It was not immediately clear how this amount had impacted the damage.
The then President Donald Trump denied the request of 2017 from the state for the Federal Government to cut the expenditure through a disaster declaration.
The pipeline is working when the river crossing has been reviewed by a court directed by a court.
The North Dakota Jury has recently been responsible for the defamation of Greenpieces and has been responsible for other claims made by the pipeline builder, there is compensation for three Greenpiece companies exceed $ 660 million.
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