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Oil pipeline gets green light; foes protest around country in 'last stand'
CANNON BALL, N.D. -- With the green light from the federal government, the company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline said Wednesday it plans to resume work immediately to finish the long-stalled project.
Meanwhile, opponents of the $3.8 billion project protested around the country in an action some dubbed their "last stand."
The Army on Wednesday granted the developer of the four-state oil pipeline formal permission to lay pipe under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion of the disputed project.
"We plan to begin immediately," Vicki Granado, a spokeswoman for developer Energy Transfer Partners, said in an email Wednesday night.
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