Following Trump's "Utterly Alarming" DAPL Order Would Violate Law, Tribe Warns

The Standing Rock Sioux has responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order to push through the long-contested Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), calling the memorandum “utterly alarming” and warning that following through with it would violate federal law.

In a letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday, Standing Rock Sioux chairman David Archambault III noted that Trump did not accept a request to meet with him, and issued the order “without any consultation.”

Trump’s memorandum, issued January 24, instructs the Secretary of the Army to order the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite a review of “requests for approvals to construct and operate the DAPL,” including easements.

The memo also calls for the agency to reconsider conducting a full environmental assessment of the pipeline, an instruction Archambault calls “astonishing.”

The assessment is already underway after being ordered by President Barack Obama.

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Withdrawing from the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is “arbitrary and without justification,” Archambault wrote. “[T]he law requires that changes in agency positions be backed by new circumstances or new evidence, not simply by the president’s whim.”