A peaceful rally is taking place at 4pm at the U.S. Embassy on Monday 19 September by Londoners in response to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s plea for global support against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Leora Strong, a Warm Springs tribe member who rode with Miller and two others in Miller’s Chevy Cobalt to North Dakota, said that when the group pulled into the camp, hundreds of tribes’ flags lined the entrance. The pipeline would stretch for over 1,100 miles and carry crude oil from North Dakota to a hub in IL.
The Standing Rock Sioux is challenging the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant about 200 permits at water crossings for pipeline, which goes through the Dakotas and Iowa to IL. It was the benefits of this project to millions of people throughout our region, and throughout the country that gave the North Dakota Public Service Commission, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, Iowa Utilities Board, and Illinois Commerce Commission rationale to approve this project and legally allow it to be constructed.
Bender said while oil companies are considering profit, chiefs are considering survival.
Energy Transfer Partners, headquartered in Dallas, Texas has spearheaded the four-state, 1886-km Dakota Access project, already constructing more than half the pipeline, which, when completed, would stretch from Stanley, North Dakota, near the Canadian border, to Patoka, in southern IL. EPA said, the Army Corps should disclose hazards to water systems downstream from oil spills, including Mni Wiconi, in its emergency preparedness planning.
Friday morning, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray who is against the Dakota Access Pipeline signed a resolution today.
She said that the event is one of the first student solidarity gatherings for Standing Rock in the nation.
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.
Our Sioux Nation tribes are the original owners of the Missouri River and its waters.
Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access pipeline, denies that the pipeline would have an impact on the water supply.
In addition to Young’s song on North Dakota’s pipeline, he’s also written detailed songs on what he refers to as American civil-disobedience, Vulture noted.
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“We wanted to show that, even though we’re in Arizona, not only just the Native American students here care about what’s going on up there, but also that students in general care about protecting the land and the water rights”, Cordova said. Opponents say the pipeline threatens water supplies and sacred sites.
