The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday, Feb. 14, edition that a federal judge on Monday refused to stop construction on the last stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline. An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe reports that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that as long as oil is not flowing through the pipeline, there is no imminent harm to the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Sioux tribes, which are suing to stop the project. He said, however, that he would consider the arguments more thoroughly at another hearing on Feb. 27. That gives the tribes hope that they still might prevail, Cheyenne River chairman Harold Frazier said. The tribes requested the temporary injunction last week after Energy Transfer Partners got federal permission to place pipe under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota. That is the last big section of the $3.8-billion (U.S.) pipeline, which would carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The tribes say the pipeline would endanger their cultural sites and water supply. They added a religious-freedom component to their case last week by arguing that clean water is necessary to practise the Sioux religion.