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Company: Dakota Access expansion doesn’t increase risk
November 13, 2019 - 3:59 PM

LINTON, N.D. - Dakota Access pipeline officials argued Wednesday that the company’s proposal to double the line’s capacity does not increase the potential of a failure, a claim that has been long dismissed by opponents of the idea.
TransCanada says spill clean up underway in South Dakota as pipeline vote looms
November 17, 2017 - 11:35 AM

CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. said Friday that work is well underway to clean up a sizable oil leak at its Keystone pipeline in South Dakota that occurred days before a vote on the fate of the company's flagship pipeline proposal.
Judge denies request to halt Dakota Access pipeline work
February 13, 2017 - 6:30 PM

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Monday refused to stop construction on the last stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline, which is progressing much faster than expected and could be operational in as little as 30 days.
Police evict oil pipeline protesters from private land
October 27, 2016 - 8:15 PM

CANNON BALL, N.D. - Law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bags and pepper spray evicted protesters Thursday from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, dramatically escalating a monthslong dispute over Native American rights and the project's environmental impact.
Dakota Access pipeline work resumes near site of protest
October 11, 2016 - 2:50 PM

ST. ANTHONY, N.D. - Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that's near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered for months.
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October 11, 2016 - 12:08 PM

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Judge grants partial stop on North Dakota pipeline work
September 06, 2016 - 10:27 PM

WASHINGTON - An American Indian tribe succeeded Tuesday in getting a federal judge to temporarily stop construction on some, but not all, of a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline, but its broader request still hangs in the balance.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
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Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

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Company: Dakota Access expansion doesn’t increase risk

TransCanada says spill clean up underway in South Dakota as pipeline vote looms

Judge denies request to halt Dakota Access pipeline work

Police evict oil pipeline protesters from private land

Dakota Access pipeline work resumes near site of protest

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Judge grants partial stop on North Dakota pipeline work

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