President Donald Trump’s executive orders this week have covered a lot of ground, but there was a noticeably severe push for the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
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Trump’s actions, which come in his fourth full day in office, benefits producers concerned about limited pipeline capacity bringing oil to market from both North Dakota and Canada. They were all asked to stand by Councilwoman Gilmore when she presented the resolution.
Keystone, a project created to ship Canadian crude to the United States, was halted in late 2015 by former president Barack Obama over environmental concerns, but Trump has invited TransCanada, the pipeline’s proponent, to resubmit its application to the State Department.
Standing Rock said it’s not a matter of if, but when DAPL will leak. “It’s not making America great again, it’s making America worse again”. Its supporters have then protested at the contamination site after President Donald Trump gave his go-signal for the pipeline. “This is the kind of hijacking of the public interest we can expect from Trump, but it won’t stand”.
Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault said it’s time for the fight to switch gears. Eventually, she said, tear gas and a growing police presence led an elder to tell them to leave the island and head back for camp. Days after that, on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hinted that the new administration may push for the completion of the project.
Proponents of the project have claimed that the pipeline is the most cost-efficient and environmentally responsible means of transporting crude oil.
“As long as we show numbers, we can really move our administration we can move our local government to do more about these issues”, Madrigal said.
But the tribe’s first priority is getting the camp cleaned up before warmer temperatures hit, the snow melts, and floods race through the camps littered with shacks, tents, cars and debris.
According to McKeon-a co-sponsor of a bill introduced Monday in the N.J. legislature to support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s opposition to construction of DAPL-New Jersey legislators understand the dangers of pipelines due to two proposed projects in the state, the proposed north Jersey Pilgrim Pipeline and the proposed south/central Jersey PennEast Pipeline. His executive actions also pushed for the pipelines to be built with American materials, and to simplify the environmental review process.
Rousey traveled to Standing Rock with Olympic judoka Pauline Macias, who posted a photo of themselves flanking a protester on Instagram early Wednesday morning.
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The executive order makes no reference to the Dakota Access Pipeline, the 1,100-mile pipeline being constructed to carry almost 500 million gallons of fracked crude oil from North Dakota to IL each day.
