Fireworks fill the night sky above Oceti Sakowin Camp as activists celebrate after learning an easement had been denied for the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Pic/AFP

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump has said for the first time that he supports the completion of a pipeline project near a North Dakota Indian reservation, which has been the subject of months of protests by tribes and environmentalists. A briefing from Trump’s transition team said despite media reports that Trump owns a stake in Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline, his support of the pipeline "has nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting policies that benefit all Americans."