Standing Rock Sioux tribal members, joined by hundreds of Native and non-native allies and with official support from more than 90 tribal governments across the country, have gathered at the construction site over the last few weeks to block construction.
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He says he went to North Dakota and got some samples of Bakken oil from an undisclosed well location and sent the samples to an Iowa State University lab.
Greene Jr. noted the June 3 oil train crash and spill near Mosier, and how their treaty rights are endangered every week by fossil fuels being transported near their fishing and drinking waters. I don’t want oil in the water that my children drink. “This is a moral responsibility for me”. The county Sheriff’s Department said they were charged with the simple misdemeanor of trespassing.
Organizers said additional demonstrations will be forthcoming in Iowa, along with more arrests.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is suing federal regulators for approving permits for the oil pipeline.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the forum’s chairman, Alvaro Pop Ac, called for a “fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process to resolve this serious issue and to avoid escalation into violence and further human rights abuses”.
A court date is scheduled for Sept.9 to determine whether the pipeline can continue as planned.
The UN is intervening on behalf of the Sioux tribe in its lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the approval of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, which will bring oil from North Dakota to IL.
Members of three Montana tribes have pledged support and funding to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which is protesting the installation of a pipeline near Bismarck, North Dakota.
The Standing Rock Sioux have raised concerns about the potential for water pollution in case of a leak and the possibility of damage to its sacred places.
“For many years First Nations have co-existed in peace and friendship with other Nations, sharing the lands and natural resources found within the traditional territories of Indigenous people”, Chief Hill writes.
On August 10, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed an emergency injunction against the Army Corps of Engineers for lack of consultation in an attempt to delay construction on the four-state oil pipeline.
District Court Judge James Boasberg is expected to announce his decision on the preliminary injunction requested by the tribe no later than September 9.
Two people attached themselves to heavy machinery and another was arrested in the early morning for protesting at a Dakota Access Pipeline site south of Mandan.
The 30-inch-diameter pipeline is expected to carry about 450,000 barrels per day, with capacity of up to 570,000 barrels per day. The line will run 1,172 miles through Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger agreed, rejecting the company’s motion on the grounds that “Dakota Access was seeking a “extraordinary and drastic remedy” that should only be issued in exceptional circumstances”, the Des Moines Register reported.
They appealed to him to reject the project – as he did with the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Rochester for Justice is planning to take a trip to North Dakota to drop off supplies the protesters are in need of.
