At least 15 people were arrested Saturday during a protest intended to block the construction of a major oil pipeline through southeast Iowa. More than 150 protesters gathered at the work site entrance of the $3.8-billion US Dakota Access Pipeline in Sandusky, a Mississippi River town across the river from Illinois and eight kilometres north of Missouri. Last month, 30 protesters were arrested at different pipeline construction site in Iowa on trespassing charges. A group of people hold signs as they prepare to trespass into a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site. On Friday, a federal appeals court ordered a halt to construction of another section of the pipeline in North Dakota.

Source: CBC News September 18, 2016 00:22 UTC