With extensive protest both from the tribe and around the world, a federal appeals court has ordered Dakota Access LLC to halt construction in another section of the pipeline in North Dakota.
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Champaign- A large group gathered in Scott Park in Champaign to hold a peaceful rally in solidarity with the Camp of the Sacred Stone at Standing Rock in North Dakota.
The AFL-CIO’s endorsement of a pipeline project expected to create thousands of infrastructure jobs has rankled liberals activists, including a member of AFL-CIO’s coalition.
Barrasso’s legislative director, Stewart, told the Youth Council representatives that Senator Barrasso, “has other priorities than Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline”. 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.
“Please support our Standing Rock Sioux relatives in this invitation for Canoe Families to join a spiritual journey down the Missouri River on September 7th and 8th”, the event invite stated.
The tribe contends that the Corps permitted the pipeline in violation of federal law, including the National Historic Preservation Act, and that the pipeline threatens the tribe’s drinking water supply. “Well this is what Dakota Access Pipeline has done to the burial ground of the Sioux”. However, the attempt to block construction, if only temporary was denied by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Friday, Sept. 9. The flags represented the more than 200 tribes that had come to the camp – including the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, once tribe members put up their flag.
On the menu: Moose meat from ME, salmon from southeast Alaska and bison tongue harvested from a herd in the Dakotas, said Judah Horowitz, a 27-year-old real estate project manager from Brooklyn, New York, whos been here for the past several days.
A college basketball star is joining the voices against a pipeline project in North Dakota. “I am using all tools possible to insure this investigation is carried out with no bias toward Dakota Access Pipeline nor the pipeline protestors”.
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In New York, people think water comes from bottles and meat comes wrapped in plastic, he said.
