They also accuse the pipeline of being unsafe.
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They came by plane, bus and auto, bringing food, songs and their finest regalia.
However, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe are protesting the pipeline. Many are living in a group of camps on both sides of the Cannonball river.
Two men had bound themselves to construction equipment about 20 miles west of the main protest site. The $3.7 billion pipeline, slated to be in service by the end of 2016, would traverse North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and IL, moving up to 570,000 or more barrels per day of “light sweet crude oil” on its way to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
The 1,172-mile-long pipeline is set to run through four states, including South Dakota and IL.
Goldtooth said the Red Warrior Camp is made up of Dakota and Lakota people residing within the original Sacred Stone spirit camp on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
The judge in the case said he would issue his ruling by September 9th.
“We have seen the success our friends from Washington state have had in their battles to protect treaty rights against the transport of fossil fuels”, David Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, said in a prepared statement this week.
“We’re not in support of either side”. Many stating that the pipeline would create a major environmental and cultural threat to their ancestral lands.
Roughly 100 people came to protest at the staging site near the Central Iowa Expo Center. He said he would likely step up patrols of the site at night. Organized labor, with a vast get-out-the-vote operation that has delivered consistently for Democrats, is increasingly frustrated with party leaders for supporting efforts by environmental groups to defeat proposed energy projects backed by unions.
Opponents have been lining up support from cities across the country.
Kirchmeier commended officers for showing proper restraint, and he reiterated that while the protest was nonviolent, it was illegal and was not considered peaceful.
The Dakota Access oil pipeline is about halfway complete, but many Native American tribes from across the United States are trying to make sure the second half is never finished.
Dalee Dorough, an Inuit member of the forum, which provides representation at the world body for indigenous peoples around the globe, said failure to consult with Sioux over the project violated the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The whole objective is to delay construction and stop the pipeline.
The protesters were taken to the Boone County Jail.
Their journey began August 23, as the House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Nation began a 5,000-mile trip across the western United States and Canada with a 22-foot totem pole strapped in a pickup truck.
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Former Gov. Rick Perry, R-Tex., urged lawmakers to lift the ban on crude oil only one month after joining the board of Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
