Developers of a four-state oil pipeline have agreed to halt construction of the project in southern North Dakota until a federal court hearing next week in Washington, D.C. The temporary construction shutdown comes amid growing protests and increased tension over the Dakota Access Pipeline that is intended to cross the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border. Some things to know about the pipeline and the protest:———WHAT IS THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE? Twenty-eight people have been arrested since then and charged with interfering with the pipeline construction, including Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II. Energy Transfer Partners announced the Dakota Access pipeline in 2014, a few days after North Dakota Gov.

Source: ABC News August 18, 2016 16:51 UTC