James MaCPherson, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Jasper Spillman, of Lawrence, Kan., leaves the protest camp as opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline leave their main protest camp Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. Most of the pipeline opponents abandoned their protest camp Wednesday ahead of a government deadline to get off the federal land, and authorities moved to arrest some who defied the order in a final show of dissent. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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Dakota Access oil pipeline camp cleared of protesters

by James MaCPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressFebruary 23, 2017

CANNON BALL, N.D. — Authorities on Thursday cleared a protest camp where opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline had gathered for the better part of a year, searching tents and huts and arresting three dozen holdouts who had defied a government…

Two people embrace as opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline leave their main protest camp Wednesday near Cannon Ball, N.D., as authorities were preparing to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding season. The Army Corps of Engineers ordered the camp closed at 2 p.m.

Most pipeline opponents leave ND protest camp

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

Military vehicles are staged near the path of the Dakota Access pipeline Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The developer says construction of the Dakota Access pipeline under a North Dakota reservoir has begun and that the full pipeline should be operational within three months. One of two tribes who say the pipeline threatens their water supply on Thursday filed a legal challenge asking a court to block construction while an earlier lawsuit against the pipeline proceeds. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

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Tribe files legal challenge to stall Dakota Access pipeline

by James MaCPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressFebruary 9, 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)

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Last pipeline protesters weigh odds in fight

by James MaCPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressJanuary 25, 2017

FILE - This Oct. 11, 2013 file photo shows cleanup at the site of a Tesoro Corp. pipeline break that spilled more than 20,000 barrels of oil into a Tioga, N.D., wheat field. The massive oil spill still isn't fully cleaned up three years and three months after it happened. The company responsible hasn't even set a date for completion. Some say that one of the largest onshore oil spills recorded in the U.S. serves as a cautionary example, especially given a recent pipeline break about 150 miles south and ongoing debates over the four-state Dakota Access pipeline. (AP Photo/Kevin Cederstrom, File)

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2013 ND oil spill still not cleaned up

by James MaCPherson Associated PressDecember 18, 2016

A person looks out over the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline as the sun rises in Cannon Ball, N.D., Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. Protesters who celebrated a major victory in their push to reroute the Dakota Access oil pipeline vowed to remain camped on federal land as they wait to find out whether President-elect Donald Trump might seek to overturn a decision that delayed the 3.8 billion project. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Industry leaders look to Trump on pipeline

by James MaCPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressDecember 5, 2016

ADDS THAT CARLINO IS A VIETNAM VET - Vietnam veteran Carlo Carlino, a Western Cherokee Native American from Ohio, stands outside his tent at the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. "These are hereditary grounds. It comes down to where can we stay and not be pushed or moved," said Carlino about why he came to the camp. "So we become refugees in our own country." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Army Corps blocks route of Dakota Access oil pipeline

by James MaCPherson Associated PressDecember 4, 2016

In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 photo, military veterans walk onto a closed bridge to protest across from police protecting the Dakota Access oil pipeline site in Cannon Ball, N.D. More than 525 people from across the country have been arrested since August. In a recent clash between police and protesters near the path of the pipeline, officers used tear gas, rubber bullets and large water hoses in sub-freezing temperatures. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Famously cold N. Dakota winter menaces pipeline protest camp

by James MaCPherson Associated PressDecember 2, 2016

Sarah Talley,19, poses for a portrait during a small gathering, in which people prayed for the Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters in Cannon Ball, ND., on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016 at Ingress Yugen, a spiritual resource center, in Flint, Mich. "I think it's important for people in Standing Rock and in Flint to kind of acknowledge each other because we're fighting the same fight, just in different way," said Talley. (Callaghan O'Hare/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

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Army Corps orders ND pipeline protesters to leave

by James MaCPherson Associated PressNovember 28, 2016

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, front, listens to Brian Wesley Horinek, of Oklahoma, outside the New Camp on Pipeline Easement in North Dakota, Oct. 26.

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N. Dakota sheriff: ‘My job is to enforce the law’

by James MaCPherson Associated PressNovember 27, 2016