{"id":110685,"date":"2016-11-12T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T04:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110685"},"modified":"2016-11-12T23:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T05:06:37","slug":"oil-pipeline-protesters-leave-after-blocking-yard-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110685","title":{"rendered":"Oil pipeline protesters block construction yard Sat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-109807\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Pipelinescenephoto2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"pipelinescenephoto2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>MANDAN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Hundreds of protesters have left after blocking a construction yard for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Morton County sheriff&#8217;s spokesman Rob Keller says the crowd of about 500 protesters dispersed early Saturday afternoon after linking arms to block the entrance. No one was arrested, and workers had been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, Keller says a caravan of about 150 cars left the protest camps and arrived in Mandan, where protesters stood and blocked the intersection of Highway 6 and Main Street. The caravan then headed west to the work yard where construction equipment is kept.<\/p>\n<p>The four-state, 1,200-mile pipeline is complete except for under the Missouri River in North Dakota. Protesters fear the pipeline could affect water supply and disturb tribal cultural sites.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The Texas company developing the Dakota Access pipeline says it&#8217;s offered to help pay law enforcement costs related to protests.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Transfer Partners says in a statement Friday that it&#8217;s made the offer to the state &#8220;but it has not moved beyond that at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Gov. Jack Dalrymple said the governor&#8217;s office hadn&#8217;t seen the offer yet and wouldn&#8217;t speculate on whether the state would accept.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota&#8217;s shouldered most law enforcement expenses to date, even paying for officers from elsewhere. North Dakota already has approved a $10 million line of credit with its state-owned bank to cover the costs.<\/p>\n<p>The pipeline&#8217;s designed to carry oil from North Dakota to a shipping point in Illinois. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its supporters argue that it threatens drinking water and cultural sites. The company insists it&#8217;s safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANDAN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Hundreds of protesters have left after blocking a construction yard for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. Morton County sheriff&#8217;s spokesman Rob Keller says the crowd of about 500 protesters dispersed early Saturday afternoon after linking arms to block the entrance. No one was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110691,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110685\/revisions\/110691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}