The Dakota Access Pipeline is a violation of the inherent sovereign rights of tribal nations to protect our waters for future generations.
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Dakota Access LLC filed the complaint last month against Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II and others from interfering with pipeline construction north of the Standing Rock reservation.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a special use permit Friday to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to use Corps land south of the Cannonball River near Lake Oahe to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.
On Thursday, protesters in North Dakota who are being sued by the company developing a four-state oil pipeline say the case should be thrown out of federal court.
Donations and supplies are sent to Standing Rock.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is anxious the pipeline will negatively impact water quality on its reservation and imperil cultural heritage sites.
Dakota Access spokeswoman Vicki Granado says the company doesn’t comment on pending litigation. This is a good thing that people have come together.. But shortly after, federal officials said they would temporarily stop construction pending further review.
McGill’s travelled to North Dakota in support of their protest of the pipeline construction in support of her son’s identity as a member of the Standing Rock Sioux.
Corps spokeswoman Eileen Williamson said protesters on the northern land are encouraged to relocate or obtain liability insurance, which the tribe has for the southern land, where the original Camp of the Sacred Stones was located before the overflow camp formed to the north.
Miller said she made a decision to join the gathering when the Warm Springs Canoe Family – a group of Warm Springs tribe members that places particular importance on the role of canoes in American Indian history – organized the trip in response to an invitation on the Sacred Stone Camp’s Facebook page to tribal canoe families all over the country. The United States pledged its honor that “war shall forever cease” and acknowledged all South Dakota west of the east bank of the Missouri River down into Nebraska, and Sitting Bull’s lands in North Dakota, as the Sioux Nation’s “permanent” home. The project would carry a half-million barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota to IL.
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Lawyers for the consortium said the tribe had offered “no reason” to interrupt work on the pipeline, which they said is nearly complete. EPA said, the Army Corps should disclose hazards to water systems downstream from oil spills, including Mni Wiconi, in its emergency preparedness planning. This omnipresent discussion of oil seems to revolve around a fluid idea: no matter how hard we try, we just can’t live without fossil fuels.
