Dakota Access Shutdown Set for Appeal After Judge Keeps Order

Energy Transfer LP’s fight to stave off a shutdown of the Dakota Access oil pipeline now heads to a federal appeals court after a district judge on Thursday refused to cut the company a break.

Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. district court in Washington rejected a request to freeze his July 6 order that operations of the pipeline be halted by Aug. 5.

Demonstrators protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock in 2017.

Photographer: Maria Feck/laif/Redux

Energy Transfer has already launched a challenge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and will now ask that court to sideline the shutdown order for the duration of ...