Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is preparing to tunnel under Lake Oahe, the body of water at the heart of the protests against the crude oil pipeline. So reports The Verge.
Protesters against the nearly $4 billion dollar project claim the crude oil pipeline could pollute water supplies and destroy land that is culturally important to the local Standing Rock Sioux tribe. But ETP is pressing on despite government requests to voluntarily halt construction underneath the lake.