ALMONT, N.D. – Authorities in southern North Dakota say more
than 30 protesters have been arrested in the last two days at a Dakota Access
pipeline construction site north of Almont.
The site is about 70
miles northwest of the main protest site near the Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation.
Morton County
authorities say eight people were arrested Wednesday, including three cited for
locking themselves onto construction equipment. The county says 69 people have
been arrested since protests began last month.
A federal judge
declined last week to block the pipeline, but the government halted work near
Lake Oahe in order to re-examine approval of the pipeline on Army Corps of
Engineers' land.
Morton County
Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier says his office will keep pursuing charges against
protesters who attach themselves to equipment.
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