The order prevents the protestors from unlawfully interfering with pipeline construction or workers’ access to the site. “They haven’t worked, so this is where we’re at right now”. Several arrests were made when protesters pushed back against a police line when an attempt was made to block workers from leaving the site.
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Picha says he and others inspected the site and found no evidence of “human remains, a burial, or other cultural remains”.
“They’re trying to lay a pipe across our water”.
Tribal leaders and groups have been staging protests over the pipeline’s construction, citing concerns over potential contamination of the Missouri River if the pipeline were to rupture.
The protesters were joined Thursday by Shailene Woodley, the heroine of a major movie series Divergent, a futuristic film based in an apocalyptic world. In one location, the pipeline runs just 500 feet from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation border, according to organizer and property owner LaDonna Brave Bull Allard. Standing Rock welcomed President Pbama in 2014 to see the desperate needs for himself.
U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland granted the developer’s motion for a temporary restraining order Tuesday. In response, the corps sent Col. John Henderson to do site visits with the tribe, and the corps allowed the tribe to submit additional comments on the project, Hoeven said. It will be bored under the Missouri River less than a mile from the tribe’s reservation boundary. It would transport as many as 450,000 barrels per day of Bakken crude when finished, with a future capacity of 570,000 barrels per day. The 1,172-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline when finished would originate in western North Dakota near Stanley and would end near Patoka, Ill.
Dakota Access says hundreds of people showed up at the protest, bottles and rocks were thrown and the Morton County Sheriff’s Dept. had to evacuate the area.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe went to court to try to block a $3.8 billion pipeline that’s going in the ground fast to carry oil from North Dakota to IL. The protesters are scheduled to make initial appearances on September 13.
“The Dakota Access Pipeline is committed to working with individual landowners to make accommodations, minimize disruption and achieve full restoration of impacted land”, it says in a statement on their website. Others came from Colorado, South Dakota, Maryland and Hawaii.
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Morton County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 11 people that day.
