The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it would not run the Dakota pipeline through the tribe’s lands.
(CNN) The Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, the Army’s assistant secretary for civil works announced Sunday.
Jo-Ellen Darcy said she based her decision on a need to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing. This comes three weeks after a November 14 announcement from her office that delayed the decision after protests from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters.
“Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it’s clear that there’s more work to do,” Darcy said in her statement. “The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Wonderful news, at least for now.
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I hope they are savvy enough to stick around to see what Trump will do. They have shown us what peaceful protest can do. It is a tool we had better get comfortable using.
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If Trump reverses this decision, may the protests against not only the pipeline but against him be historical.
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Agreed both
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The battles have just begun! We might be living in “interesting times” in the next few years. DAPL is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Agree, Duane.
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Woo hoo and that ought to chap Trump’s ass since he’s vowed to speed up oil permits.
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The tribes FAILED to express any objections during the SEVEN public hearings. This is only a stall .. possible alternate routes are part of the preliminary processes. This project is EIGHTY-FIVE PER CENT COMPLETE. The last 15% has a price tag of $3.5 BILLION. The pipeline will replace 750 tankers reducing risk and follows a natural gas pipeline that exists at a lower depth.
Looks more like a carrot to make protesters think they made a difference.
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Linda STOP spreading lies and misinformation: Audio: Tribe objected to pipeline nearly 2 years before lawsuit —
Audio released by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe from a September 2014 meeting with Dakota Access Pipeline representatives contradicts recent claims made by a pipeline company executive. [snip]
However, the recording provides audio from a Sept. 30, 2014, meeting in which Standing Rock officials expressed their opposition to the pipeline and raised concerns about its potential impact to sacred sites and their water supply — nearly two years before they raised similar objections in a federal lawsuit.
http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/audio-tribe-objected-to-pipeline-nearly-years-before-lawsuit/article_51f94b8b-1284-5da9-92ec-7638347fe066.html
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Facts this is the post fact world . If the fourth estate is going to confront this the gloves have to come off . We are beyond simple fact checking and it is time for people to call bald face lies ,lies and those who spread them liars . Above all it is time to stop giving them the platforms to do it on . News is not two talking heads debating one another in endless white noise . It is something done by investigate journalists who yes can have different perspectives on any issue . But then it is up to the public to decide who is credible and who is not . The 24hr cable news cycle has not resulted in a more educated public . If it had we would not be looking at Trump.
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Thank you all you wonderful “protectors” who took your stand and WON!!!!
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Although I agree with your basic premise and have called for massive peaceful demonstrations myself ,understand this could have ended differently. Understand this is not over yet. We can argue that Obama should have taken action long ago. The new studies will not be complete in his administration. So avoiding confrontation was an easy call ,his legacy already being “Donny Little Hands”.
Fascists do not take well to public dissent and use their communication skills with their constituent base and demagoguery to validate the force necessary to stifle it. A President Trump might have ended this much differently.
The current President has ended peaceful dissent differently in the past .
If anyone thinks that the presence of American Veterans is a deterrent
to abuse of Government power. You better reread our history. Beijing is not the only capital that has seen tanks roll down a street to stifle dissent. One might look a lot closer to home. And If anyone thinks it can’t happen here,it has.
Another thing to keep in mind is those troops that mowed down the protestors in Tienanmen Square were the second line of defense . The first troops sent in refused to violently put down the protests and were withdrawn. So it is only a matter of the oligarchies willingness to use what ever means necessary to maintain control .
It can’t happen here !
I would say that a year ago you would have said there is a pigs ass chance in hell for “Donnie Little Hands” to be the next President of the United States. His cabinet is beginning to look like a Latin Junta. Petraeus would round it out nicely.
I plan on being in Washington on the 21 of January . This potential tyrant has to be met with overwhelming opposition before he consolidates power. Mass demonstrations do shape opinion and move societies.
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Diane….I do a lot of consulting work with a district on the Standing Rock reservation, including Cannonball Elementary. While the tribe and others are celebrating this victory, there is concern that the Trump administration will overturn everything and support the Dakota Access Pipeline and the plans to put the pipeline under the Missouri which borders the school and the community….
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Thank you for the post. Peaceful demonstrations were not the only tactic. The banks that funded the project were targeted. If, the pipeline was originally routed near Bismarck and then, changed to where the poor live, Pres. Obama, Loretta Lynch, N.D.’s governor, the Army Corps of Engineers, etc., all, had an obligation to shut down the pipeline. In truth, the middle class and poor, including veterans, Native Americans and those in the newly-awakened popular resistance, forced the powerful to relent, temporarily. The threat to the water supply and environment should, have led, the entire nation to action.
If we don’t fight for democracy, we lose it. Bill Gates, the Walton’s and the Koch’s, all mow down their opposition and, they are the evidence of the formidable threat oligarchs pose to the U.S. Trump is its current face. The richest 400 families, who control the country, regardless of which political party they claim, are the cancer that consumes democracy. Pres. Obama mocked the nation, when he gave the Medal of Freedom to an oligarch.
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Well said
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I hope this is NOT just another CARROT. But when I look at the Oligarchy, they make promises and then do as they please.
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Trump could reverse the decision. And bray that he did it to create jobs.
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