American Indian tribes hoping to persuade a federal judge to turn off the Dakota Access oil pipeline maintain in last-minute court filings that the project's developer has overstated the potential impacts of a shutdown. The $3.8 billion pipeline began moving North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois on June 1, after President Donald Trump pushed for its completion. "There is no legitimate basis for arguing that suspending DAPL will cause havoc," Hasselman and Ducheneaux wrote. "Suspension of DAPL undoubtedly will have some impacts, but they will be more modest and manageable than DAPL contends." "One can only imagine the arguments that DAPL would try to make if operations continued for an extended period," they said.

Source: ABC News August 29, 2017 19:46 UTC