Sanders, who challenged former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, already spoke out against the pipeline last month.
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But by far the biggest and highest-profile protests have been waged by thousands of Native Americans from across the country who have gathered north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
The group said they will send in any signatures they acquired during the event, so they can be added to the petition.
But minutes later, federal officials ordered a temporary halt to construction on Army Corps land around and underneath Lake Oahe – one of six reservoirs on the Missouri River. The proposed pipeline linking Dakota oil fields with an IL pipeline would cross tens of thousands of rivers, creeks, streams, lakes and wetlands, destroying innumerable sacred, cultural and historic sites and large numbers of ancestors’ burial sites. “I want my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren and their children, when they ask what their great-great grandfather in the Spokane Tribe did, I want them to say he stood up for them”.
Protesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Cannon Ball, N.D., hours before a federal judge denied the tribe an injunction against the pipeline.
Law enforcement says they are prepared for more incidents like this. He entered the same plea to a Class A misdemeanor trespassing charge in connection with a September 6 protest involving people who vandalized or bound themselves to construction equipment.
Though the protest began quietly and focused on a specific issue, it came to represent a broad grievance: that for too long the concerns of Native Americans have been given little attention as the nation has approved major energy projects in or near areas where tribes live or consider sacred.
“Should the Administration ultimately stop this construction, it would set a horrific precedent”, he said.
Holding signs and banners and chanting “Oil Kills”, protesters in Atlanta and other US cities on Tuesday shouted support for Native American activists trying to stop construction of a North Dakota pipeline they say will desecrate sacred land and pollute water.
A deputy recognized Hall on State Highway 1806, and he was pulled over for expired tabs in the Fort Rice area, Morton County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said. “Indigenous people have been on the frontlines of environmental justice since the European invasion”, she says.
Preskey did not immediately know how many people had been arrested or what charges the might face.
Thayliah Henry-Suppah, a Paiute of OR who traveled to Standing Rock for the protests, told a The New York Times reporter that she kept the following Native American proverb in mind while in North Dakota: “Treat the Earth well”.
Energy Transfer Partners, the lead company on the Dakota Access Pipeline, saw its share price sink more than 3 percent on Friday and it was down another 2 percent during early trading on Monday. Keller says about 30 bulldozers, scrapers and other heavy equipment were taken away on flatbed trailers Tuesday morning.
Terry O’Sullivan, general president of LIUNA who makes over $663,000 a year had previously lauded the project “The men and women of LIUNA applaud the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its fair and thorough review of the Dakota Access Pipeline”. She has been charged with criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor offense.
Archambault also downplayed the significance of the Republican governor calling out the National Guard, saying the troops would only be used for traffic management and not to clear out the protest camp.
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Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren said in a memo to employees that the four-state, 1,172-mile (1886 km) project is almost 60 percent complete and that “concerns about the pipeline’s impact on the local water supply are unfounded”.
