That wasn’t the issue
The Fort Belknap Indian Community of Montana and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota contend there was no effort to study how the 1,200-mile pipeline project through their respective territories would affect their water systems and sacred lands."
---https://www.npr.org/2018/09/10/646523140/native-american-tri...
Do you mean to propose this was the real reason behind the scenes? I find it hard to believe.