North Dakota transportation officials, meanwhile, closed a several-mile stretch of Highway 1806 on Wednesday because of the protest along the road. The 1,172-mile pipeline planned by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners is passing through the Dakotas and Iowa on its way to Illinois. Archambault said he met Wednesday with North Dakota Sens. Career Coach: Stop sitting around waiting to be asked - take some initiativeThe tribe sued federal regulators late last month for approving the pipeline. "So now if there's any way he can intervene and move this pipeline off our treaty lands, I'm asking him."

Source: New Zealand Herald August 17, 2016 20:26 UTC