Robert Kennedy Jr. to join Dakota Access pipeline protests
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slated to join protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.
Also Tuesday, activists have called for demonstrators to protest at Army Corps of Engineers offices and offices of banks that are financing the pipeline project. The protesters want President Barack Obama to permanently halt the construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline.
Kennedy is an environmental attorney and president of the New York-based Waterkeeper Alliance, which seeks to protect watersheds worldwide.