A judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by four American Indian tribes from South Dakota and Nebraska in an attempt to stop construction of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline.
It will move crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Kansas, Oklahoma and Illinois.
The $5.2 billion project over more than 2,100 miles will also go through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri.
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (oy-YAH'-tay), Rosebud Sioux, Santee Sioux and Yankton Sioux argued that treaties and federal laws and regulations were broken during the environmental assessment of the route and granting of a permit.
But a judge dismissed the complaint, saying the tribes didn't show a treaty basis or that the government failed in its duties.
