12-4-16 PIPELINE HALTED: Feds block proposed route of Dakota Access pipeline after protests

Jack Dalrymple IOGCC by Dave Harbour 6-28-52

Governor Jack Dalrymple. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour

Commentary: We see the federal action, described below, as a violation of due process and, by extension, the rule of law. The Corps of Engineers consulted all potentially interested/affected parties and after a constitutional operation of due process approved the pipeline route’s right of way easement on July 25th. Does not the political action to block the proposed route violate the constitutional guarantee of due process and the record that supported the Corps’ decision on the record?

North Dakota’s leaders criticized the decision, with Gov. Jack Dalrymple calling it a “serious mistake”…. (Fox news)

We believe that the Corps’ action is nothing more than the present administration’s capitulation to mob rule that gives precedence to protest over evidence.

The Unites States Army Corps of Engineers, in our mind, has bowed to illegal pressure and violated the public trust. The Corps’ action — with support from the EPA and Departments of Interior and Justice — reflects dishonor upon its history and mission, upon the Constitution and upon the Administrative branch of the United States of America’s government. -dh
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FROM FOX NEWS

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will not grant an easement for a $3.8 million pipeline to be built under Lake Oahe in North Dakota after months of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

For more on this story, visit http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/04/feds-block-route-dakota-access-pipeline.html

About the Author: wpnorthern

Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School. Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations. Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska. Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power. He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress. Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.