(December 5, 2016, 1:59 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a memorandum on Dec. 4 stating that it will not grant an easement to allow the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAP) to cross the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, just upstream from the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has been joined by other tribes across the country in protesting the route of the 1,100-mile oil pipeline for months....