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U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to push ahead with two massive pipeline projects.
Trump, who was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States Friday, has always maintained his support of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipeline projects.
On Tuesday, Trump is expected to move from words to action.
The order is expected to allow the Dakota Access group to finish the controversial project in North Dakota that may include tunneling under Lake Oahe.
Both project stalled under former president Barack Obama.
The news will not be received well by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe that has fought against the project across their territory.
In late summer through the fall there were violent clashes between Standing Rock supporters who called themselves water protectors, and local and state police who used water pepper spray, rubber bullets, Tasers and sound cannons against them.
The Standing Rock Tribe says they were not consulted on the project, that it is destroying historical artifacts and building under Lake Oahe is too risky.
The Keystone XL pipeline has not been as big an issue after Washington under Obama refused to approve the pipeline that runs from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf coast.
The project has the support of the Canadian government to move bitumen to outside markets.
More to come
