Native Americans file lawsuit claiming Keystone XL pipeline violates treaty boundaries

Two Native American communities filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in the US District Court for the District of Montana [official website] on Tuesday alleging President Donald Trump’s administration will violate the tribes’ treaty rights when it permits TransCanada to build the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Former president Barack Obama rejected [JURIST report] the pipeline in 2012 and 2015 on climate change grounds, but President Donald Trump gave the project a green light shortly after his inauguration in 2017 via a presidential permit.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2018/09/native-americans-file-lawsuit-claiming-keystone-xl-pipeline-violates-treaty-boundaries/