The Yankton Sioux Tribe has turned to a lawsuit and protests in an effort to block the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Numerous activists opposing Dakota Access were involved in blocking the Keystone XL pipeline. “That’s something that we’ve always been about; we’re not just in it for ourselves, we’re in it for every human on this planet”.
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Republicans largely want to see the pipeline built.
It even contributed to their message: Water is Life.
Minot Police Capt. John Klug said the individuals left in their vehicles and no arrests were made.
As protesters sang songs, chanted slogans and taunted police outside the law enforcement center, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier met with reporters in the attached courthouse to discuss his announcement earlier in the day that a joint task force led by his department is conducting an unbiased investigation of the September 3 incident.
Helms, who stepped off the stage while the group spoke from the podium, resumed his speech within minutes and police stayed on scene as the event concluded without further incident. The tribe says the pipeline would jeopardize its water supply and damage or destroy cultural sites. We join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in denouncing the recent destruction of ancient burial sites, places of prayer and other significant cultural artifacts sacred to the Lakota and Dakota people.
“This isn’t a fight that Indians are doing for ourselves, it’s for everybody”, Davenport said, who is a member of the Sac and Fox of the MS tribe in Iowa. “Go around”, Fox said. “We have to pay them”. A pipeline is a long pipe, typically underground to transport oil, gases and other materials over long distances.
Archambault told the commission the 1,172-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline that would move 450,000 barrels of crude daily from the Bakken oil fields to a hub in IL “threatens our communities, the river and the earth”.
The North Dakota encampment represents the largest Native American protest in decades.
Citing “important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux”, the Obama administration ordered a halt to construction around Lake Oahe by the Army Corps of Engineers. However, plans to continue the Dakota Access Pipeline are still in place.
Marvin Nelson, the Democratic candidate for governor who also addressed the meeting Wednesday, said miscommunication led to the current situation.
Members of the University of Iowa Native American Student Association organized the group of approximately 100 people of varying ages and ethnicities to protest the pipeline, which could negatively affect the environment. “Of course it didn’t”.
Some agencies do not treat the tribes as sovereign nations, as they should under law, said Wizipan Garriott Little Elk, a former Department of Interior official.
“The United States must keep fossil fuels in the ground to stop unsafe climate disruption, but we’re also very concerned about the sovereignty and human rights issues”, Kelley said.
Dakota Access followed the letter of the law in its review process, receiving full approval from state and federal regulatory authorities.
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“We don’t oppose economic development or energy, but what we oppose is it being done on our backs”, he said. “We can have production, we can be responsible and we can protect our water at the same time”.
