In the never-ending barrage of alternative reality emanating from the cluster-fuck in the whitehouse, the Corps of Engineers decided that it no longer needed to do an environmental impact statement on the Dakota Access Pipeline. This shouldn't be surprising; those guys are pretty spineless, and were easily cowed by the supreme toddler.
This 42 inch diameter pipeline is designed to carry tar sands sludge, which is the most environmentally destructive oil there is! It is so thick and goopy that it sinks in water! A 2010 spill on the Kalamazoo River released a million gallons of this goo, and has left a permanent layer of death on the river bottom.
Now the sleaze brigade has declared THE PROTESTORS to be a threat to the river!!! Yep, they're afraid that pee or poop might destroy the Missouri! And, if the tents were to wash into the river, they might pose "a hazard to navigation"!
There is a video black-out on this story, so look for another Wounded Knee Massacre to go unreported.