Hill Heat: Army Corps Grants Expedited Dakota Access Pipeline EasementScience Policy Legislation Actiontag:hillheat.org,2005:TypoTypo2017-02-07T16:13:43-05:00Brad Johnsonurn:uuid:edeb17cf-644d-4633-ba3f-f5d4e063bda42017-02-07T15:50:00-05:002017-02-07T16:13:43-05:00Army Corps Grants Expedited Dakota Access Pipeline Easement<div style="float:right;width:40%;font-size:x-small;margin-left:10px"><img src='/files/lamont.jpg' alt='Douglas W Lamont' style='width:100%' /><br>Douglas W. Lamont, acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works</div>
Cancelling an ongoing environmental review, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given Congress 24 hours notice of its decision to grant an easement for the construction of the final leg of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The action was directed by one of President Donald Trump’s first presidential memoranda.
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In the waning days of the Obama administration, after global pressure built from sustained opposition by Native American tribes to the Bakken shale pipeline in North Dakota, the Army announced it would begin a new environmental impact statement review of the project. Trump’s presidential memorandum of January 24th directed the Army Corps to expedite the approval process for the pipeline by any legal means necessary. In memos issued by <a href='https://planning.erdc.dren.mil/toolbox/library/PCoP/P7_MrLamont_bio.pdf'>Douglas W. Lamont</a>, acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the corps <a href='/files/EIS_termination.pdf'>terminated the environmental impact statement process</a> and <a href='/files/Memo_Feb_7.pdf'>foreshortened the Congressional notification period</a> from two weeks to one day.
<p>Final construction on the pipeline could thus begin as early as tomorrow.</p>
<p>In other news, Arctic temperatures are nearing <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/02/01/beyond-the-extreme-scientists-marvel-at-increasingly-non-natural-arctic-warmth/?utm_term=.a6c69e34c4a3'>50 degrees above normal</a>, a <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/07/science/earth/antarctic-crack.html'>massive crack</a> is spreading across one of the major Antarctic ice shelves, and a <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/02/07/this-monster-tornado-just-rolled-through-new-orleans-major-damage-reported/?utm_term=.207b904a6db2'>massive tornado hit New Orleans</a>.</p>
<p>Download Lamont’s <a href='/files/EIS_termination.pdf'><span class="caps">DAPL EIS</span> termination memo</a>.</p>
<p>Download Lamont’s <a href='/files/Memo_Feb_7.pdf'>expedited <span class="caps">DAPL</span> easement memo</a>.</p><div style="float:right;width:40%;font-size:x-small;margin-left:10px"><img src='/files/lamont.jpg' alt='Douglas W Lamont' style='width:100%' /><br>Douglas W. Lamont, acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works</div>
Cancelling an ongoing environmental review, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given Congress 24 hours notice of its decision to grant an easement for the construction of the final leg of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The action was directed by one of President Donald Trump’s first presidential memoranda.
<br /><br />
In the waning days of the Obama administration, after global pressure built from sustained opposition by Native American tribes to the Bakken shale pipeline in North Dakota, the Army announced it would begin a new environmental impact statement review of the project. Trump’s presidential memorandum of January 24th directed the Army Corps to expedite the approval process for the pipeline by any legal means necessary. In memos issued by <a href='https://planning.erdc.dren.mil/toolbox/library/PCoP/P7_MrLamont_bio.pdf'>Douglas W. Lamont</a>, acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the corps <a href='/files/EIS_termination.pdf'>terminated the environmental impact statement process</a> and <a href='/files/Memo_Feb_7.pdf'>foreshortened the Congressional notification period</a> from two weeks to one day.
<p>Final construction on the pipeline could thus begin as early as tomorrow.</p>
<p>In other news, Arctic temperatures are nearing <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/02/01/beyond-the-extreme-scientists-marvel-at-increasingly-non-natural-arctic-warmth/?utm_term=.a6c69e34c4a3'>50 degrees above normal</a>, a <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/07/science/earth/antarctic-crack.html'>massive crack</a> is spreading across one of the major Antarctic ice shelves, and a <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/02/07/this-monster-tornado-just-rolled-through-new-orleans-major-damage-reported/?utm_term=.207b904a6db2'>massive tornado hit New Orleans</a>.</p>
<p>Download Lamont’s <a href='/files/EIS_termination.pdf'><span class="caps">DAPL EIS</span> termination memo</a>.</p>
<p>Download Lamont’s <a href='/files/Memo_Feb_7.pdf'>expedited <span class="caps">DAPL</span> easement memo</a>.</p>