State officials have revoked a stop-work order on the Bakken oil pipeline where tribal officials object to disrupting sacred American Indian land in northwest Iowa that includes burial grounds.Iowa Department of Natural Resources spokesman Kevin Baskins tells The Des Moines Register that the state department granted Texas-based Dakota Access LLC an amendment to its sovereign lands construction permit.Baskins says the pipeline will be located about 85 feet underground in the Big Sioux River Wildlife Management Area by using special equipment rather than digging a trench for a route.State Archaeologist John Doershuk said in an email last week to department director Chuck Gipp that the proposed method is a satisfactory avoidance procedure.Indigenous Environmental Network organizer Dallas Goldtooth says his organization opposes the department's decision to allow the pipeline to be constructed in the area.

State officials have revoked a stop-work order on the Bakken oil pipeline where tribal officials object to disrupting sacred American Indian land in northwest Iowa that includes burial grounds.



Iowa Department of Natural Resources spokesman Kevin Baskins tells The Des Moines Register that the state department granted Texas-based Dakota Access LLC an amendment to its sovereign lands construction permit.



Baskins says the pipeline will be located about 85 feet underground in the Big Sioux River Wildlife Management Area by using special equipment rather than digging a trench for a route.



State Archaeologist John Doershuk said in an email last week to department director Chuck Gipp that the proposed method is a satisfactory avoidance procedure.



Indigenous Environmental Network organizer Dallas Goldtooth says his organization opposes the department's decision to allow the pipeline to be constructed in the area.



