James MacPherson, Author at Valley News

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017, aerial file photo shows the site where the final phase of the Dakota Access Pipeline will take place with boring equipment routing the pipeline underground and across Lake Oahe to connect with the existing pipeline in Emmons County near Cannon Ball, N.D. An Associated Press analysis shows North Dakota stands to gain more than $110 million annually in tax revenue after oil begins coursing through the pipeline. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

North Dakota Could See Tax Windfall With Pipeline Completion

by James MacPherson Associated PressMarch 1, 2017

Bismarck, N.D. — North Dakota stands to gain more than $110 million annually in tax revenue after oil begins coursing through the Dakota Access pipeline, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.The calculation shows the potential payoff for a state…

Refuse remains in the Dakota Access pipeline opponents' main protest camp as a fire burns in the background in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, as authorities prepare to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding season. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)

Pipeline Protesters Break Camp

by Blake Nicholson Associated Press, and James MacPherson Associated PressFebruary 22, 2017

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2016, file photo, heavy equipment is seen at a site where sections of the Dakota Access Pipeline were being buried near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. The Army has notified Congress Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, that it will allow the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, completing the four-state project to move North Dakota oil to Illinois. The Army intends to allow the crossing under Lake Oahe as early as Wednesday, Feb. 8. The crossing is the final big chunk of work on the pipeline. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Pipeline Foes Hold ‘Last Stand’

by James MacPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressFebruary 8, 2017

Hay is stacked up to feed horses at a protest encampment along the route of the Dakota Access oil pipeline near Cannon Ball in southern North Dakota on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an executive action to advance construction of the pipeline, which opponents believe threatens drinking water and cultural sites. The pipeline developer disputes that. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Pipeline Protesters Face Choice Following Change in White House

by James MacPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressJanuary 26, 2017

In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 photo, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier looks up from his desk in Mandan, N.D. Kirchmeier has led the police response to the Dakota Access oil pipeline protests, and shrugs off criticism that that response has been heavy-handed at times, saying that he and his officers have properly enforced the law against protesters whose tactics have become increasingly aggressive. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Orders Could Have Little Effect in N.D.

by James MacPherson Associated PressNovember 28, 2016

Protesters demonstrate outside of the US Army Corps of Engineers office, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in Huntington, W.Va., in solidarity with opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. (Sholten Singe/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)

by James MacPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressNovember 15, 2016

Burned out trucks blocks a causeway on Highway 1806, seen from the police side of a barricade of a protest camp in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Demonstrators have been camping for months in an effort to block the nearly 1,200-mile, four-state pipeline. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)

Protesters Split Over Tactics

by Regina Garcia Cano Associated Press, and James MacPherson Associated PressNovember 1, 2016

The burned hulks of heavy trucks sit on Highway 1806 near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Friday, Oct. 28, near the spot where protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline were evicted from private property a day earlier. Authorities say protesters burned several pieces of construction equipment Thursday during a chaotic confrontation with law enforcement. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

No Violence in Latest Standoff

by James MacPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressOctober 29, 2016

Dakota Access pipeline protesters confront law enforcement on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D. The months-long dispute over the four-state, $3.8 billion pipeline reached a crisis point when the protesters set up camp on land owned by pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners. The disputed area is just to the north of a more permanent and larger encampment on federally-owned land where hundreds of protesters have camped for months. (Caroline Grueskin/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

Authorities Forcibly Remove Oil Pipeline Protesters in N.D.

by James MacPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressOctober 27, 2016

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016 file photo, Phil Daw Sr., of Albuquerque, New Mexico, helps cook beef stew to feed hundreds at an encampment near North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The sprawling encampment that’s a protest against the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining _ except a federal permit to be there. The camp near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers in North Dakota is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Feds Won’t Evict Pipeline Protesters

by James MacPherson Associated PressOctober 4, 2016