Bryan Niewind, left, offered him a megaphone to amplify his voice. They say the good life is the way we live.
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If completed, Dakota Access Pipeline will run nearly 1,170 miles, delivering 500,000 barrels of crude oil each day from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to facilities in IL.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a mouthpiece of the corporate defilers of the Earth, the Dakota Access Pipeline, one of the interrelated Bakken pipelines, has many big-name oil companies connected with it: “Dakota Access is being built by Energy Transfer Partners LP and its affiliate, Sunoco Logistics Partners LP”.
Corps spokeswoman Eileen Williamson said she couldn’t comment on the lawsuit. “They have the markets, they have the people, and we’re trying to get it there”.
The Dakota Access Pipeline, as proposed.
The leaders of the protest are deciding what the next move is as they await word from the pipeline company on the future of the project.
Wrigley, a former U.S. Attorney for North Dakota who was in Grand Forks for an unmanned aerial systems conference, provided an update on the state’s response to the protest Tuesday morning.
Jason Kowalski is the US policy director at 350.org.
The letter comes as greens, tribal-rights groups and anti-fossil fuel organizations turn their focus to this new pipeline.
They learned this in their successful fight against Keystone XL – the massive project that promised to bring crude from Canadian tar sands to USA refineries. Last year, 40,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River after a pipe ruptured upstream.
“People took a warm up lap with Keystone”, Kowalski said. “For the first time in 100 years we are hosting the reconvening of the Seven Council fires of the Oceti Sakowin”.
The Dakota Pipeline is an issue that affects farmers in the region. “Divergent” actress Shailene Woodley was part of the protests last week, and actress Susan Sarandon was at Wednesday’s federal hearing.
The pipeline is a almost $4 billion project that would “enable domestically produced light crude oil to reach major refining markets” in a more economic way. Native Americans are pulling in by the busload from places as far as Alaska and Oklahoma. The Native Americans fear the pipeline will pollute drinking water and hurt sacred sites on their reservation.
“We’ll do what we can with our bodies to keep the machines from coming in”, he said. “Well now, you’re here with us”.
“It will not be just harmful to my people, but its intent and construction will harm the water in the Missouri River, which is one of the cleanest and safest river tributar [ies] left in the United States”, Archambault said in an August 15 statement. It says it consulted extensively with tribes, including the Standing Rock Sioux, and it says that tribe has failed to describe specific cultural sites that would be damaged by the pipeline.
The tribe is challenging the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant permits for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.
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As hundreds of protesters rallied outside U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., Judge James E. Boasberg said he would need until September 9 to weigh all the evidence presented at a hearing on the lawsuit brought by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
