The monetary donations are used to buy supplies for the Sacred Stone camp and also to assist in the legal fees pertaining to the pipeline protests. “This is a moral responsibility for me”, Defatte told the Des Moines Registrar.
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Members of Rochester for Justice will be heading to North Dakota to drop off supplies to support protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline project. A representative for the contractor for Dakota Access, Precision Pipeline, asked the protesters to leave.
Since becoming the leader of about 9,000 people in 2013, Archambault has sought to improve housing, health care, employment, education and other grim realities that his 2.3 million-acre reservation that straddles the North and South Dakota border and reservations nationwide face.
The local sheriff’s office says they could face misdemeanor trespassing charges after blocking access to a Dakota Access construction staging site.
“This is important. I’m trying to get the kids who come to Roundhouse Council out to Standing Rock next week”, said Executive Director Mary Joseph.
Fargo’s Native American Commission has issued a statement in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as it and other tribes and groups from across the country protest Dakota Access Pipeline construction near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
The tribe has claimed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated historic preservation and environmental laws when it approved the pipeline, according to Reuters.
Eight more “water protectors” were arrested in North Dakota on Wednesday, during a protest that saw several people lock themselves to heavy machinery and authorities shut down a stretch of highway.
“The pipeline would adversely affect not only the security and access to drinking water of the Sioux and millions of people living downstream of the Missouri River, but it would also destroy archaeological, historical and sacred sites of the Sioux”, the United Nations body said in its statement. The pipeline would transport an estimated 470,000 barrels of oil per day from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to IL. So supply for the pipeline, which could ship nearly half of Bakken production, will probably fall as it’s coming online, he said.
Opponents of the pipeline in Iowa and South Dakota raised concerns that the project might not serve the public interest the recent decision to lift the ban on exporting crude would mean oil transported by the pipeline might be destined for foreign markets. North Dakota is now in an economic slump. The planned pipeline would transport 500,000 barrels of crude hydro-fracted oil from the Bakken fields in North Dakota, bisecting the entire state of Iowa on its way to Patoka, Illinois.
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After organizing grassroots efforts against TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL through Bold Nebraska, an activist group, Jane Fleming Kleeb has turned her attention to Energy Transfer Partners LP’s project. It will carry as much as 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to major USA markets.
