In the song Young aligns himself with members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation is located on the border between North and South Dakota.
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In a temporary win for the tribe and other pipeline opponents, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals’ District of Columbia Circuit granted the “administrative injunction” late Friday to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the matter.
The tribe and protesters here in the Tri-State fear the pipeline will disrupt sacred sites and impact drinking water for thousands on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and potentially millions farther downstream.
Archambault said he hopes the United Nations will use its influence to protect the rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
“Dozens of people, many holding signs proclaiming “Water is life” or “#NoDAPL”, gathered earlier this month at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland when they learned the North Dakota tribe had lost its bid to halt construction of the controversial pipeline.
There’s a school for dozens of children, an increasingly organized system to deliver water and meals and volunteers from the health care sector.
The protest is scheduled to take place from 4 p.m. until 5:50 p.m.in Liberty Park in Schenectady, which is across from Schenectady County Community College.
Granting the injunction would threaten the entire $3.8 billion project at a point when construction is nearing completion, the company said. It also asked for a “voluntary pause” of work by Energy Transfer Partners for 20 miles (32 km) on either side of Lake Oahe, to which ETP has not indicated its position, though it noted in an email that work was ongoing elsewhere in the other four states.
No one – neither the company, nor the tribe, nor federal agencies – has said.
The $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile conduit is meant to convey light sweet crude from the Bakken formation in northwestern North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois.
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Lawyers for the consortium said the tribe had offered “no reason” to interrupt work on the pipeline, which they said is nearly complete.
