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.
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What is the pipeline project?
Protesters in North Dakota and around the country have been uniting in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is meant to send oil from North Dakota, through Iowa to IL.
Enbridge added that, with Sandpiper shelved, it was moving in tandem with Marathon on the Bakken Pipeline, a network that includes the controversial Dakota Access pipeline project that would extend south from North Dakota. An estimated 7.4 billion barrels of undiscovered oil is believed to be in the US portion of the Bakken Formation, according to the US Geological Survey.
Dakota Access is being built by Energy Transfer Partners LP and its affiliate, Sunoco Logistics Partners LP.
Native American and environmentalist groups have been protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline citing concerns about water quality. The Sioux allege that their ancestral lands and culturally important landscapes are at risk.
Also arrested was Miriam Kashia, of North Liberty, of the 100 Grannies activist group. The state had enjoyed a major boom, but after hitting highs in 2014, it suffered a major economic downturn. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have said they oppose the project. A judge in Washington, D.C., is expected to rule on the tribe’s request for an injunction by September 9.
For it to get there, it would have to cross under the Missouri River – Standing Rock Reservation’s water source.
Actress Shailene Woodley, third from left to right, filmmaker Josh Fox, actress Susan Sarandon and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member Bobbi Jean Three Lakes, at a rally outside the US District Court in Washington. That site rallied global attention this month when Native American protests that have been ongoing for months grew into the thousands.
Authorities say that they have cut free the man who bound himself to construction equipment as part of a protest at a Dakota Access oil pipeline about 20 miles west of a main protest site in North Dakota.
The tribe’s chairman, Dave Archambault II, accused the Army Corps of ignoring federal laws and fast-tracking “this massive project just to meet the pipeline’s aggressive construction schedule”.
The world is watching what is happening in North Dakota. “So as far as we’re concerned, they’re trespassers”. But (there) has been a consultation process.
He said protesters, almost 30 of whom have been arrested in recent weeks, were creating safety issues. Some see the pipeline as Keystone XL 2.0, named after the Canada-to-Texas tar sands pipeline that was eventually blocked by the Obama administration.
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Since mid-August, 37 people have been arrested in connection with pipeline protests in North Dakota. It also involves significant intramural squabbling within the Democratic Party that pits two of its most influential coalitions, organized labor and the environmental movement, in what has been an ongoing jobs-versus-environment debate throughout the country.
