{"id":15804,"date":"2021-01-29T21:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=156364"},"modified":"2021-01-29T21:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:26:40","slug":"critical-dakota-access-pipeline-bond-cancelled-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/29\/critical-dakota-access-pipeline-bond-cancelled-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Dakota Access Pipeline Bond Cancelled in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; On January 7th, 2021 the Westchester Fire Insurance Company, a subsidiary of international insurance corporation Chubb, notified Energy Transfer Partners that it was cancelling a crucial $250,000 bond for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) segment in Iowa. Publication of this bond cancellation comes just days after a federal appeals court largely sided with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe upholding lower court decisions that revoked a key permit for the line and required a federal agency to conduct a lengthy environmental review.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Surety bonds are used to protect the public from having to pay for any damages or pollution created by existing projects.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><strong>The following is a statement from Indigenous Environmental Network<\/strong>:&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cDakota Access Pipeline has no federal easement. It&#8217;s now losing insurance coverage on the state-level which is a requirement for Iowa&#8217;s state permit. It is time for President Biden to take action and shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline. This project is a danger to all communities along its path, including the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Nations. It\u2019s time to end this saga and do what\u2019s right. Shut down DAPL.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/29\/critical-dakota-access-pipeline-bond-cancelled-in-iowa\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 On January 7th, 2021 the Westchester Fire Insurance Company, a subsidiary of international insurance corporation Chubb, notified Energy Transfer Partners that it was cancelling a crucial\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15805,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions\/15805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}