A large crowd of Native Americans gathered to take a stand against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline that would transport crude oil from North Dakota to IL.
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The Bellingham Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2caShy3 ) that the resolution calls on federal agencies to respect the status and treaty rights of recognized tribes.
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.
The pipeline company says it’s committed to finishing the project.
Flags brought by Native American and Canadian First Nation tribes fly over an encampment where hundreds of protestors have gathered on the banks of the Cannon Ball River to stop construction of the Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in.
The Standing Rock Sioux’s effort to temporarily block construction near its reservation on the North Dakota-South Dakota border was denied by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Friday. The online threats, which have appeared in YouTube videos, have been made against President Obama, North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple, members of the National Guard, and law enforcement.
On Friday, a federal appeals court ordered a halt to construction of another section of the pipeline in North Dakota due to protesting and federal intervention.
A group called Protect Sacred Ground and Water peacefully protested against the Dakota Access pipeline in downtown Evansville Sunday evening.
Hovland added that he recognizes numerous troublesome protesters are from out of state and have political interests or hidden agendas different than the legitimate interests of Native Americans and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who are affected by the pipeline.
For others, like protester, Olivia McGuire, who’s been camping out in front of the pipeline site in Sandusky for 3 days, hits close to home.
Dalrymple and other state regulators noted the Dakota Access line has already gone through more than two years of state and federal regulatory review, that most of it sits on private land and that it would run 92 feet under the Missouri River’s bed.
“Now you’ve got people, multi-billion dollar companies going into the river taking it out for free”, said Luca Majno.
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“We are Standing Rock”.
