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Dakota Access decision to come next month
Protest groups in the state denied responsibility, but said they plan to continue peaceful demonstrations against the project.
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The tribe is suing federal regulators for approving permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline that will move oil from North Dakota to IL.
On Wednesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear the tribe’s lawsuit, which claims a federal agency violated multiple statutes for protecting clean water and culturally significant sites by issuing permits to Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline’s builder.
Outside the court in the United States capital, environmental activists made their feelings clear.
“Like the Keystone XL pipeline, which I opposed since day one, the Dakota Access fracked oil pipeline, will transport some of the dirtiest fuel on the planet”, he said in a statement.
Work near the North-South Dakota state border south of the Standing Rock Sioux’s reservation has become problematic, drawing fire power from Gov. Jack Dalrymple, pipeline backers and opponents, and various levels of governmental officials in North Dakota. The tribe also argues the project will harm water supplies and disturb ancient sacred sites outside of the 2.3-million acre reservation.
“We don’t feel that we should be building pipelines, we feel that the money should instead be spent on alternative sources of energy”.
The tribe contends that federal regulators didn’t give tribal leaders the option to assess the pipeline’s impact on cultural sites or sensitive environmental locations and is asking a judge to halt construction until it can do so.
Dave Archambault II, Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, called the governor’s actions “unfortunate” and decried the fact that the tribe had not been consulted.
Ms Little Shield describes the contested pipeline as personal. It’s ironic that water is being used against the protestors as their main complaint with the pipeline is it may endanger water quality.
“Apparently they’re not concerned about people going down the other way”, she said. They asked the question: Can a protest against oil happen without oil?
Generations of native Americans, both young and old, took turns sharing personal accounts of why halting the pipeline was important to them as crowd broke into battle cries and pounded tribal drums. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has filed a request for an injunction to block the project for good.
Environmental groups like his and the Sierra Club are joining the Native Americans’ fight.
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Standing Rock spokesman Steven Sitting Bear hinted that the protest is only just beginning, as he’s received “notifications from tribes all over the country that have caravans in route, so it’s continuing to grow”. We make an effort to protect discussions from repeated comments â either by the same reader or different readers. In its request for a temporary restraining order to keep protesters from interfering with construction or access to the site, Dakota Access said at least two protesters were armed with knives while others threw bottles and rocks at vehicles or made threats.