Dakota Access pipeline

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The Missoula City Commission has voted to pull $2.6 million of the city's money from Wells Fargo accounts because the bank is invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline and because employees opened fraudulent customer accounts to generate fees and bonuses...

SEATTLE (AP) — Wells Fargo is offering the city of Seattle the chance to break its banking contract immediately, before it expires at the end of 2018. Earlier this month the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to cut ties with the San Francisco-based banking giant over its role as a lender to the Dakota Access pipeline project as well as other business practices...

SEATTLE (AP) — A committee of the Seattle City Council has voted to pull about $3 billion in deposits from Wells Fargo Bank over its role as a lender to the Dakota Access pipeline project and other business practices. The Seattle Times says hundreds gathered outside the committee hearing Wednesday urging the city to cut ties with the bank and show support for pipeline opponents...

With protests continuing to mount against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Obama administration has decided to stop construction of the controversial project. The Corps of Engineers announced Sunday it will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota...

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Unlike The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against the Dakota Access pipeline that resulted in a halt, agri-pulse reports that about a dozen farmers in Iowa , challenged the construction of the 1,200-mile pipeline through portions of their fields and lost their bid for an injunction that would have prevented ETP from digging trenches and burying the pipe sections, One of the plaintiffs, Keith