According to Standing Rock Sioux tribe leaders, if completed, the almost 2,000-kilometre-long pipeline route, which would cross through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and IL, would disturbs sacred tribal land.
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The $3.8 billion pipeline is set to pump oil along a 1,100-mile stretch between North Dakota and IL.
The buildup, announced Wednesday, comes after a skirmish between protesters and private security guards on Saturday that turned violent; the crowd dispersed when officers arrived, and no one was arrested.
Boasberg said he will rule by the end of Friday on the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s challenge of federal regulators’ decision to grant permits to the Texas-based operators of the pipeline. In addition to the sacred sites, they also believe the oil pipeline could contaminate water from a nearby lake.
Jill Stein, whose national support is in the low single digits in all major voter surveys, was charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors, the sheriff’s department in the North Dakota county where the protest occurred on Tuesday said on its Facebook page. Goodman’s footage shows the construction project’s security guards wielding pepper spray and deploying attack dogs to provoke and injure demonstrators-violence on the part of the pipeline authorities that got left out of CBS’s rip-and-read on the protests.
Angry protesters faced off with construction workers at the site on Saturday.
Stein admitted to spray-painting the bulldozer with the words “I approve this message” in red during the demonstration on Tuesday.
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BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota authorities are recruiting law enforcement officers from across the state to guard the site of a protest in anticipation of an impending federal ruling on whether to block the construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. “North Dakota needs to be a state of opportunity and welcoming to energy expansion with a safe, smart approach”.
