Tribes seek to stop pipeline (click here)
By Joe Kafka, The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
PIERRE -- Four Native American tribes have gone to federal court at Pierre in an effort to stop construction of the Keystone oil pipeline through eastern South Dakota and North Dakota.
The tribes argue that treaties, as well as federal laws and regulations, were broken during the environmental assessment of the route and subsequent granting of a presidential permit for the pipeline....
...The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Rosebud, Santee and Yankton Sioux Tribes filed the lawsuit. Tribal leaders say that officials have not done a proper environmental assessment of the pipeling. The leaders also say the pipeline corridor will affect at least 87 tribes in six states....
