She said there weren’t any reports of protesters being injured.
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Authorities say a group of between 150 and 200 protesters, including some carrying hatchets and knives, gathered at the construction site Tuesday morning.
He said some protesters had hatchets and knives, and two secured themselves to heavy equipment.
This means that the site of mass grave and artifact desecration by contractors at the site of a violent confrontation between protestors and Energy Transfer Inc.’s security forces over the holiday weekend is not resolved.
In this August 26, 2016, photo, Monte Lovejoy, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, left, takes a photo with Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II at Cannon Ball, N.D. About 30 people, including Archambault himself, have been arrested in recent weeks for interfering with construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.
The protests were triggered, the tribes said, when the pipeline company used bulldozers on Saturday to destroy sacred tribal sites whose locations had been identified in court documents filed on Friday.
In a video posted to the Sacred Stone Camp Facebook page, Stein said, ” This pipeline is especially critical, it will be over half a million barrels of poisonous Bakken oil every day that is pumped through that is poisonous to the water.it will be crossing some 200 rivers and streams and tributaries, it puts at risk not only the water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation it puts at risk the water supply for millions of people downstream in the Missouri River so it’s absolutely critical to protect this land, to protect these sacred sites and to protect this water we must win this battle”.
A spokesman for Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law organization, said Judge Boasberg’s temporary injunction does not include a work stoppage on the land that was the scene of the protests. “That’s where the sites were found on Friday”, says Jan Hassleman, attorney representing Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Ortegon says the Dakota Access Pipeline can not be safe. He said people have joined near Cannon Ball, North Dakota as protectors of the water – not protesters. He also said that there were two more attacks on crews Tuesday.
U.S. Judge James Boasberg said on Tuesday he granted in part and denied in part the temporary restraining order by agreement of the parties.
A spokeswoman for Energy Transfer Partners couldn’t immediately be reached to comment.
“We’re still going to occupy each site”, she said. Stein wrote “I approve this message” in red spray paint on the blade of a bulldozer.
The request granted by Boasberg is different than the tribe’s broader push that challenges federal regulators’ decision to grant permits to the operators of the four-state pipeline.
The Texas-based company building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline opposes the request, and attorneys for Energy Transfer Partners said in court documents that workers have not destroyed any cultural sites. The tribes oppose the construction of the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which, if completed, would carry almost half million barrels of crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale formation.
The tribe wants a federal judge to halt construction in the southern part of the state to prevent the destruction of sacred and culturally significant sites.
Proceedings in D.C. District Court today really showcased the complexity of this case… and tensions were high here today.
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In federal court documents filed on September 2, surveyor Tim Mentz Sr. said his surveys on both sides of Hwy 1806 discovered “a significant number of stone features (82) and archeological sites, including at least 27 burials”. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe agreed to the deal along with the pipeline’s builders, as well as the Army Corps of Engineers.
