The State has even cut off the water supply that the Tribe had initially received from the North Dakota Public Service department, citing that the equipment would be in danger on site in Cannon Ball.
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Also Wednesday, a Texas company that’s building an oil pipeline across four states was told by the Iowa Utilities Board to stay away from the properties of 15 Iowa landowners until Monday to give board time to review legal issues involving a lawsuit.
In legal filings, the agency has rejected the tribe’s accusations and said it consulted extensively with the tribes, including the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, before issuing the pipeline permits.
Lucky’s Market and Natural Grocers have both offered to donate food for Brown to take with her and deliver to protesters, Brown said.
In turn, the tribe has sought a preliminary injunction in Washington to halt pipeline construction, accusing the US Army Corps of Engineers of violating historic preservation and environmental laws by approving the pipeline, which would cross just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The Native Americans fear the pipeline will pollute drinking water and hurt sacred sites on their reservation.
A judge in a USA district court heard arguments from both sides on Wednesday.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders released a statement Thursday supporting the efforts to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“They do not have a permit to be on the Army Corps land, where the main encampment is and, of course, they weren’t permitted to be out there on the highway right of way”, Wrigley said.
As opponents of the Dakota Access (aka Bakken) Pipeline traveled to the US capital for a judge’s August 24 decision on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s petition to bar construction of the 1,172-mile project, support of the tribe’s position skyrocketed.
“Whatever the final outcome in court, I believe we have already established an important principle-that is, tribes will be heard on important matters that affect our vital interests”, Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II said Wednesday, according to the Bismarck Tribune.
Woodley spent almost three weeks in North Dakota with protesters near the reservation.
Protesters, insisting their actions are peaceful, appealed to the United Nations, non-governmental organizations and churches to send observers to the site.
Vic Camp, a 41-year-old from South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, said Tuesday that protesters will refrain from violence if the judge’s ruling doesn’t go their way.
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“Law enforcement has a duty to facilitate the rights to freedom of expression and assembly for those who wish to peacefully protest”, said Tarah Demant, senior director with Amnesty International USA.
