Museum directors, curators and archaeologists have joined the protest led by Native American groups against the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota.
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Community members stood across the street from Schenectady County Community College waving signs at passing cars to protest the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota.
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation asked the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel Wednesday to expedite their review of the Sacagawea pipeline because it “raises issues of unusual magnitude and urgency”. Watching the standoff in North Dakota, I’ve gotta say we would have done this better. “It’s a fight for water”. “We’re all fighting the no oil, no pipeline across our sacred lands and in the waters here. And that’s what needs to be brought to America’s attention, America’s awareness”. Specifically, the pipeline would pass under the Missouri River near Lake Oahe, impacting the sole drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) The company developing the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has purchased a North Dakota ranch where a violent protest occurred earlier this month due to what tribal officials said was construction crews destroying burial and cultural sites.
The landowner, not TransCanada, discovered the leak, opponents say, with the company working on pipeline repairs for months.
“The Lenape Indian Tribe of DE stands in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in calling for the Army Corps of Engineers to halt this pipeline and initiate an administrative process that includes full Tribal input and consultation”.
“Their rights are seriously being infringed by the construction of the pipeline”, Wang said.
Also, 40 people protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline were arrested last weekend near Sandusky. The pipeline is being built by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, which says it intends to finish the project despite several legal delays.
Speakers at Thursday’s protest included Native Americans, farmers, environmentalists, and others from around the state of Iowa.
“It sounds like quite a lot of acreage to purchase for the use of a pipeline, unless they’re planning to put up a refinery or something”, he said.
He explained that “what is happening up there is happening down here”, and said that those not yet born need the sacred places mapped out on the Earth’s surface.
The Standing Rock tribe claims in its lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the agency violated the National Historic Preservation Act and other laws in issuing permits for the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile pipeline, which will stretch from the Bakken oilfields to Patoka, Ill., and is more than 60 percent completed. “This pipeline threatens our communities, the rivers, and the earth”.
During Thursday’s testimony, Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Dave Armchambault II said he isn’t seeking to block all projects.
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“You can stop the pipeline, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop consuming oil, as much as people would like to see that happen”, Priest said.
