The Bellingham City Council has passed a resolution supporting the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes in their opposition of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline.
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Protests are taking place in the US, Europe, Japan and New Zealand over the $3.8bn Dakota Access Pipeline, which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe claims threatens their water supply and cultural heritage.
Pipeline supporters disagree. They say the Dakota Access Pipeline is a $3.7 billion project to carry 470,000 barrels of oil a day from the fields of North Dakota to IL.
The announcement came the same day as a planned “day of action” in cities around the US and in other countries, including the Toronto demonstration.
Hundreds of Native American protestors and their supporters, who fear the Dakota Access Pipeline will pollute their water, forced construction workers and security forces to retreat and work to stop.
“We intend to meet with officials in Washington to understand their position and reiterate our commitment to bring the Dakota Access Pipeline into operation”, Warren added.
“Every pipeline in the future could be potentially challenged”, says Fresno State Political Science Professor Thomas Holyoke.
Their main goal is to encourage energy transfer partners to reconsider. Concerns about water supplies in the region also prompted reconsideration for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, before the White House moved against the project on broader environmental grounds. Although a federal judge sided with the Corps and denied the tribe’s request for an injunction on Friday, the federal agencies said the Corps is now determining whether it needs to reconsider any of its previous decisions regarding the permit. “So we will continue to obey the rules and trust the process”, Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, wrote to employees, according to Associated Press.
It will stretch from North Dakota to IL going underneath the Missouri River.
In North Dakota protests ended in arrests, with 22 people cuffed after two locked themselves to work equipment.
The pipeline construction has triggered a series of protests that have drawn thousands of protestors.
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Archambault said the consultations were one-sided and that “they met with us after their plans were already made”.
