This an historic day for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and for tribes across the nation. Within this statement, the agencies requested that the Dallas-based pipeline owner voluntarily suspend building while they sort out policy issues. Despite these considerations, the decision stated “the Court must nonetheless conclude that the Tribe has not demonstrated that an injunction is warranted here”.
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The 1,172-mile project will carry almost a half-million barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota’s oil fields through South Dakota and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Patoka, Illinois. “I don’t think they even realize the can of worms they’ve opened”.
People rally on the grounds of the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, following a federal judge’s ruling in Washington denying a request by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe to halt construction on the Dakota Access pipeline, a thousand-mile pipeline being built to carry North Dakota crude oil across four states to IL.
The local tribe says it was railroaded by the pipeline’s developer and the US Army Corps of Engineers, the governmental body responsible for approving construction under the river. “Native peoples have suffered generations of broken promises and today the federal government said that national reform is needed to better ensure that tribes have a voice on infrastructure projects like this pipeline”.
“They’re going to try to bury this pipeline under the waterways that go through their community and supply water to that community”, Mitchell said.
News that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stepped in to stop construction for 20 miles on either side of the Missouri River and Lake Oahe was characterized as helpful, but does not change any commitment to maintain the protest camps.
Grijalva on Sunday will meet with Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II and visit and tour the Standing Rock Sioux camp.
Through an Aztec dance and ceremony, they wanted to educate and inform visitors to the Alamo about the pipeline that is being built to transport crude oil from North Dakota to IL. My heart is hurting, but we will continue to stand, and we will look for other legal recourses. She also said the protest will continue. People came from as far as NY and Alaska, some bringing their families and children, and hundreds of tribal flags dotted the camp, along with American flags flown upside-down in protest.
Archuleta said the protest in Boise included native dancers and a drum circle that attracted onlookers.
Law enforcement efforts near the North Dakota protest site included the use of police dogs and Archuleta said he talked to two members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe who were at the North Dakota protest site and said they were concerned when dogs were turned loose on some of the protestors.
Energy Transfer Partners officials didnt return The Associated Press phone calls or emails seeking comment.
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The worst case scenario for the pipeline builders is that the DAPL project will be completely rejected, as was the Keystone XL project. Announced in 2014, supporters said the pipeline would create more markets and reduce truck and oil train traffic – the latter of which has been a growing concern after a spate of fiery derailments of trains carrying North Dakota crude.
