Government won't permit oil pipeline under Missouri River.

The article reports on the U.S. pipeline that cuts through the Dakotas, Iowa, and Illinois states, and allegations that the denial of an easement for the pipeline as politically motivated. Topics include the challenge by natural gas and propane company Energy Transfer Partners to the decision by Assistant Secretary for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy in denying the easement which wold cross beneath Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir and source of drinking water for the Standing Rock Reservation.