Sanders joined the hundreds of people who gathered in DC to voice their opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline, which is planned to move crude oil through four states from North Dakota to IL.
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A Standing Rock Sioux flag flies over a protest encampment near Cannon Ball, North Dakota where members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their supporters have gathered to voice their opposition to the Dakota Access oil Pipeline (DAPL), September 3, 2016.
The memo to employees, which was also released to some media outlets, is the first time in months the company has provided significant details of the four-state, 1,172-mile project.
Native American and environmental organizations in Colorado joined a national day of action Tuesday in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins, protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Acting moments after a federal judge denied the tribe’s request for a halt to construction, the administration asked the company building it to refrain from construction on private land as well.
She says construction workers were “swarmed” by protesters and that two people had “attached” themselves to equipment.
Court records show Amy Goodman, the host of independent news program “Democracy Now”, was charged Thursday and a warrant for her arrest was issued in Morton County. Almost 40 have been arrested as the protest has grown in size, including Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II.
The Texas company that is building the pipeline says construction is nearly 60 percent complete and says concerns about the impact on water are unfounded.
“People are still coming down here and are committed to stopping the project”, he said.
“We were all moved by the spirit to be here”, said Linda James Thomas, 59, who attended the Atlanta rally in support of the Georgia State Tribe of the Cherokee.
In their letter, Ruiz and Grijalva wrote they are concerned “that the Army Corps of Engineers ignored serious concerns raised by the tribe and other federal agencies related to (the pipeline’s) impact on both sacred sites and their water supply”.
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Indigenous peoples call the project a threat to their access to clean water and an insult to their forefathers, some of whom are buried in the pipeline’s path. Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe told ABC News today that the tribe has filed an appeal and is hoping to make the government’s request for a voluntary pause an enforceable requirement.
