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Feds ask judge not to close Dakota Access pipeline

By John Siciliano

Published August 18, 2017 3:40pm ET

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Feds ask judge not to close Dakota Access pipeline — The Dakota Access pipeline is a $3.8 billion project to move oil from the North Dakota shale oil fields to market nearly 1,200 miles East to Illinois, where it will link up to another interstate segment. (AP Photo/James MacPherson) | James MacPherson

Federal lawyers have asked a district court judge not close the Dakota Access pipeline while the Army Corps of Engineers conducts a previously court-ordered environmental review on the risk of a spill.

“There is a serious possibility that the Corps will reaffirm its original conclusions based in part on its conclusion that the pipeline segment under Lake Oahe is highly unlikely to spill into the lake,” lawyers for the Army Corps told a federal court judge in a brief filed late Thursday.

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