The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe that the main camp used by people opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline will be closed by Dec. 5. The camp is on land located just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation, where Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners has been trying to complete the contentious Dakota Access pipeline. If finished, the $3.8-billion US pipeline will carry crude oil south to Illinois from northern North Dakota. Tribe disappointedAnyone on the land after Dec. 5 would be considered to be illegally trespassing, the Corps said. The Corps said that people opposed to the pipeline could freely demonstrate in a "free speech zone," which would be established south of the existing camp.

Source: CBC News November 26, 2016 01:27 UTC