"The tribe had requested an injunction against the final stage of construction on the 1,172-mile pipeline, which could move up to 570,000 barrels of oil a day between North Dakota and Illinois."
The Cheyenne River Sioux tribe said the controversial oil pipeline project violates its religious freedom due to its placement under Lake Oahe. The tribe uses the lake for sacred ceremonies, and its lawyers argued that the mere presence of an oil pipeline under the lake desecrates the water and violates their religious freedom.
But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg dismissed that argument on Tuesday.