Protesters rally against plans to route the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, N.D., last November. (Stephanie Keith/REUTERS)Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials said this weekend that while they were working with federal authorities to stabilize the situation at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest site, they were not calling on law enforcement to forcibly remove activists there. A few hundred activists remain, both on the Standing Rock Sioux’s reservation and on neighboring land. On Wednesday, law enforcement authorities arrested 74 protesters who had decamped to land owned by the pipeline’s developer, Energy Transfer Partners. “We want to stress that we are cleaning the camps, not clearing them,” the tribe posted on Facebook on Saturday.

Source: Washington Post February 05, 2017 19:50 UTC