Current Events Report: Company Agrees to Halt N. Dakota Pipeline Work

Instructions

Write a one-page paper on a current event in the construction industry.
- What happened?
- Who are the stakeholders?
- How does this relate to the class?
- Discuss the contract.
- What would you do in the owner’s position? Or in the contractors?
- Suggestions: award of project/development, change in law/policy, labor dispute, etc.

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The company decided to stop construction temporarily for a week in the areas for which the restraining order was issued although not in all of them. Dakota access also filed a petition opposing the request by the tribes in the same court. In the opposing case, the company accused the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of causing trouble through violent demonstrations and seeking to break the law by stopping construction.

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